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

Solr works like magick for full text indexing, which is difficult to achieve with Mysql. A mix of Mysql and Solr can be used: Mysql for CRUD operations and Solr for searches.
I have previusly worked with one of India's best real estate online classifieds portal which was using Solr for search ( and was previously using Mysql). The migration reduced the search times manifold.
Solr can be easily integrated with Mysql:

• Solr Full Dataimport can be used for importing data from Mysql tables into Solr collections.
• Solr Delta import can be scheduled at short frequencies to load latest data from Mysql to Solr collections.