solr-node-client vs. node-solr about solr-node-client

[juzerali]

node-solr has no documentation. That is the sole reason I switched to this one.

[lbdremy]

Hello @jochenonline ,

They are few differences between these two clients:

• node-solr is a low-level client and solr-node-client is more high-level client by providing handy methods to build a Query and some others like Client#addRemoteRessource or Client#createAddStream.
• node-solr sends XML to Solr, solr-node-client sends JSON to Solr but both ask to retrieve JSON response
• solr-node-client has documentation on a website http://lbdremy.github.com/solr-node-client/ and in the code
• Both have tests
• Both are maintained by their authors and accept pull requests :)

Let me know if you have other questions.

[jochenonline]

Due to some problems with wildcards (*) and + while searching with node-solr, I switched to solr-node-client!

[AvnerCohen]

I too made a switch after short play with node-solr.

I think solr-node-client has a much nicer api and better support for complex queries, some very basic stuff (like paging) are not obvious on node-solr.

[dmgreene]

About to make the switch myself. Any advice from @AvnerCohen @jochenonline @juzerali ?

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice on migrating from node-solr to solr-node-client? It seems like they share API signatures, so I'm hoping that it will be a pretty painless switch?

[jochenonline]

No advice in special. We again switched in the meantime. This time we changed Solr to ElasticSearch which has the far better speed in development and itself has a better support oft replication which is inevitable for us due to failover possibilities.

[AvnerCohen]

@dmgreene I've been a happy user of solr-node-client for a long time now. Working with the package in a rather heavy traffic site as part of the search feature of the site (top 300 sites of the world as per Alexa..).

So, far, I'm a very happy uper :)

I like it that there is a nice API touch when API exists, for example:

  var query = solr_client.createQuery().q(query_string)
  .defType('edismax')
  .qf({term_s:1})
  .pf({term_s:1})
  .mm(escape("100%"));
  return query;

And when API is not already present, I can easily switch to custom code and use whatever I need:

solr_client.createQuery().q(search_str).set("fq=whatever_customer_query");