Solr Container [closed]

Answer 1

I used Solr with Tomcat6 with no problems.

The fact that Solr and Tomcat are both Apache products and still Solr comes with lightweight Jetty included must mean something.

Here are few Tomcat vs Jetty links:
http://www.slideshare.net/noriaki/jetty-vs-tomcat
http://www.asjava.com/jetty/jetty-vs-tomcat-performance-comparison/

From the Jetty evangelist standpoint:
http://www.webtide.com/choose/jetty.jsp

Answer 2

Tomcat. We had some large documents truncated and dropped using Jetty.

Answer 3

I mostly used jetty while rapid prototyping with Solr. Because Jetty is packaged with Solr, it was very convenient to use. However, we use Tomcat6 in production. It was easy to transition.

I would say go with what your most comfortable with initially.

According to the Solr Wiki: "For non-trivial installations, JettyPlus is recommended." http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrJetty

Answer 4

used with tomcat6 no problem, you will need to reload tomcat with each schema change however

Answer 5

Don't think it especially matters, they'll both work.

If you're using either of them already, stick with it.

If not... well, given that Solr and Lucene are both Apache projects, it seems simpler to also go with Tomcat.

If you do want to go with Jetty though, you can.

Answer 6

jetty has some issues with unicode text (or at least had when I was working on it the last time). So if you have non english documents to index, your only choice is Tomcat. Also, if you are looking at running solr on 64bit Windows Server - you can get a 64-bit Tomcat but I don't think there is a 64-bit Jetty server available.