Does anyone know of companies offering SaaS full text search? I'm looking for something that uses Lucene, solr, or sphinx on the backend, and provides a REST API for submitting documents to index, and running searches.
I could build my own EC2 AMI, but I'd have to configure EBS and other stuff, monitor it, etc. Curious if someone has already done all this and would charge per MB/GB indexed.
thank you.
-- James
Websolr provides a cloud-based Solr with a control panel. It's in private beta as of this writing, but you can get the service through Heroku.
Another hosted Solr service is PowCloud, also in private beta, which seems to offer strong Wordpress integration.
Acquia Search offers Solr integration for Drupal sites.
If you decide to build your own EC2 instance, the SolrOnAmazonEC2 wiki page might be useful. Or you could just get LucidWorks Solr for EC2, which is probably the easiest and fastest way to get Solr on EC2.
I thought you might want to look at a hosted solr/lucene offering by Acquia (a company started by the founder of Drupal) as they offer a branded solution called Acquia Search based on Solr. Find more info at the followin URL: http://acquia.com/products-services/acquia-search
indekspot.com also offers ready to be used search index containers, based on Apache Solr search server. Out of the box we support Wordpress and Drupal but we are building a generic system. We are currently in private beta. Get in touch with us at [email protected] to get an account.
We support the native Solr REST API. We have added SSL and HTTP Authentication.
Disclaimer: I'm the founder of Indekspot