Schemaless Solr

NOTE: French version at the bottom of this page.

We can often see on the web that Elasticsearch is really cool because it is schemaless, and Solr is not. Although Elasticsearch is cool for many reasons, we want to remind you that Solr is also schemaless since July 2013 (Solr 4.4).

To remind you what schemaless means: Without manually editing the Solr schema, it can recognize some data types  automatically when receiving data to be indexed. Those types are: Boolean, Integer, Long, Float, Double, and Date

That’s pretty convenient for quick prototyping. Still, as for Elasticsearch, Continue reading