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Avinasha Shastry
Avinasha Shastry

Reputation: 822

What is the difference between Solr vs Websolr?

I am researching on full text search engine and I installed Sunspot which makes use of Apache Solr library. We host on Heroku and they offer a Websolr addon which confused me.

Can I use Sunspot without WebSolr on heroku?

Also Can anyone let me know where to find the websolr api key when i add the heroku websolr addon?

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1347

Answers (1)

Mauricio Scheffer
Mauricio Scheffer

Reputation: 99750

Solr is not a library. It's a stand-alone Java search server. Sunspot is a library, a Ruby client for Solr. WebSolr is a service that provides a hosted Solr instance. If you don't use Heroku's Websolr add-on, you'll have to provide your own Solr instance hosted somewhere else.

Upvotes: 15

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