Full text search options for MongoDB setup

Question

We are planning to store millions of documents in MongoDB and full text search is very much required. I read Elasticsearch and Solr are the best available solutions for full

Answer 1

There are some search capabilities in MongoDB but it is not as feature-rich as search engines.

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Full+Text+Search+in+Mongo

We use Mongo with Solr to make content searchable. We prefer Solr because

• It is easy to configure and customize
• It has large community (This is really helpful if you are working with opensource tools)

Since we didn't work with ES i could not say much about it. You can found some discussions about Solr vs ES on the links below.

• Solr vs ES 1
• Solr vs ES 2
• Solr vs ES 3