NoSQL (MongoDB) vs Lucene (or Solr) as your database

Question

With the NoSQL movement growing based on document-based databases, I\'ve looked at MongoDB lately. I have noticed a striking similarity with how to treat items as \"Documen

Answer 1

Also please note that some people have integrated Solr/Lucene into Mongo by having all indexes be stored in Solr and also monitoring oplog operations and cascading relevant updates into Solr.

With this hybrid approach you can really have the best of both worlds with capabilities such as full text search and fast reads with a reliable datastore that can also have blazing write speed.

It's a bit technical to setup but there are lots of oplog tailers that can integrate into solr. Check out what rangespan did in this article.

http://denormalised.com/home/mongodb-pub-sub-using-the-replication-oplog.html