There are times, not very often, when picking only a few features to report would be unfair to a product.
This is one of those times.
I have reproduced the description of LucidWorks 2.1 as it appears on the Lucid Imagination site:
LucidWorks 2.1 new features list:
Enhancement Areas Key Benefits Includes the latest Lucene/Solr 4.0
- Near Real Time
- Fault Tolerance and High Availability
- Data Durability
- Centralized Configuration
- Elasticity
Business Rules
- Integrate your business processes and rules with the user search experience
- Examples: Landing Pages, provide targeted search results per user, etc.
- Framework to integrate with your BRMS (Business Rules Management System)
- OOB integration with leading open source BRMS – Drools
Upgrade and Migrations
- Lucid can help upgrade customers from Solr 3.x to 4.0 or older Solr versions to LucidWorks 2.1
- Upgrades for existing LucidWorks customers on previous versions of LucidWorks to LucidWorks 2.1
Enhanced Connector Framework
- Easily build integrations to index data from any application or data sources
- Framework supports REST API driven integration, generates dynamic configuration UI, and allows admins to schedule the new connectors
- Connectors available to crawl large amounts of HDFS data, integrate twitter updates into index, and CMIS connector to support CMS systems like Alfresco, etc.
Efficient Crawl of Large web content
- OOB integration for Nutch (open source)
- Helps crawl Webscale data into your index
REST API and UI Enhancements
- Supports memory and cache settings, schema less configuration using Dynamic fields from UI
- Subject Matter Experts can create Best Bets for improved search experience
Key features and benefits of LucidWorks search platform
- Streamlined search configuration, optimization and operations: Well-organized UI makes Solr innovation easier to consume, better adapting to constant change.
- Enterprise-grade, business critical manageability Includes tools for infrastructure administration, monitoring and reporting so your search application can thrive within a well-defined, well-managed operational environment; includes upgradability across successive releases. We can help migrate Solr installations to LucidWorks 2.1.
- Broad-based content acquisition Access big data and enterprise content faster and more securely with built-in support for Hadoop and Amazon S3, along with Sharepoint and traditional online content types – plus a new open connector framework to customize access to other data sources
- Versatile access and data security Flexible, resilient built-in security simplifies getting search connected right to the right data and content
- Advanced search experience enhancements Powerful, innovative search capabilities deliver faster, better, more useful results for a richer user experience; easily integrates into your application and infrastructure; REST API automates and integrates search as a service with your application.
- Open source power and innovation Complete, supported release of Lucene/Solr 4.0, including latest innovations in Near Real Time search, distributed indexing and more versatile field faceting over and above Apache Lucene/Solr 3.x; all the flexibility of open source, packaged for business-critical development, maintenance and deployment
- Cost-effective commercial grade expertise & Global 24×7 Support a range of annual support subscriptions including bundled services, consulting, training and certification from the world’s leading experts in Lucene/Solr open source.