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This is exactly the issue I’m currently facing. We do a bunch of count queries to calculate facets and am looking for something that can do this out of the box. I’m glad I came to the same conclusion myself, either solr or elasticsearch might be the way to go. Starting this from scratch, which of the two would you recommend and why?

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I myself is currently setting up Solr for a project as my experience with ES as a DevOps is not a happy one. Always nodes/indexes having some kind of problem. In the same time i have also worked with Solr for years before and never met any major issues. It just works and does the job well.

Unfortunately I don't know enough about elasticsearch to provide a useful comparison. I like the way ES queries are structured JSON instead of obscure compact querystring parameters, but that's not a good reason to choose one over the other :)

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