Searchbox Announces Searchbox-server.com

Apache Solr is a powerful yet difficult piece of technology to manage. While it is easy to get started on a development environment, it becomes a real system administrator job to run the system in production. In fact, numerous configurations are required to run Solr with maximum scalability, availability and performance. “Searchbox-server has been designed to make it easy for developers, bloggers and data managers to install this powerful technology without having to dedicate too much time or energy to the final product”, says Jonathan Rey, from the Swiss start-up Searchbox.

Using a hosting solution such as Searchbox-Server can be summarized with four important beneficial aspects for a company: Reliability, Security, Maintenance and Cost. Three key features distinguish Searchbox-server as an outstanding hosted solution: 

• No server to manage - Solr Search Server as a Service
• High availability Solr - High security and performance
• No vendor locking - Replicate data Solr in minutes

 
Searchbox-Server provides the client with a Solr Search API endpoint. This endpoint is 100% Solr 4.x compatible. It supports XML, JSON, and CSV. We also have Apache Tika bundled with Solr. Tika can be used to extract data from PDFs, word, excel, iWork and other types of documents.

Searchbox provides cutting-edge search solutions for enterprises, including an highly customizable cloud-based search application and out-of-the-box plugins for existing Solr instances. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Lausanne.