When to consider Solr

Question

I am working on an application that needs to do interesting things with search, including full-text search, hit-highlighting, faceted-search, etc...

The dataset is likel

Answer 1

Use Solr if:

• You do not want to stress your database.
• Get really full text search.
• Perform lightning fast search results.

I currently maintain a news website with 5 million users per month, with MySQL as the main datastore and Solr as the search engine.