---
title: "Peter Wolanin on Apache Solr & Acquia Search Service"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/peter-wolanin-on-apache-solr-acquia-search-service"
type: episode
date: 2009-10-14
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Peter Wolanin on Apache Solr & Acquia Search Service

#  Peter Wolanin on Apache Solr & Acquia Search Service 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Peter Wolanin](http://drupal.org/user/49851) talks about the [Apache Solr Search Integration](http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr) module, and his involvement with polishing and finishing it along with [Jacob Singh](http://drupal.org/user/68912) from what [Robert Douglass](http://drupal.org/user/5449) started.

Apache Solr has been picking up steam this past year with it's faceted search features, and getting a lot more exposure with being deployed on the [module search on Drupal.org.](http://drupal.org/project/Modules)

Peter talks about the mechanics of how Apache Solr works, and how it's based up on the [Apache Lucene](https://lucene.apache.org/core/) text search engine library, which is a lot more optimized for search than SQL. Peter was working on Apace Solr integration as a part of the [Acquia Search service,](https://www.acquia.com/drupal/features) which is geared toward people who do not want to deal with setting up and maintaining a dedicated server for search.

Finally, Peter also talks a bit about some of the exciting things on the horizon in the future with Views integration and search integration with other modules.

**For more information:**

- [Acquia Search](https://www.acquia.com/drupal/features)
- [Acquia Search available commercially](https://dri.es/acquia-search-available-commercially)
- [Acquia Search: benefits for visitors](https://dri.es/acquia-search-benefits-for-visitors)
- [Acquia Search: benefits for site administrators](https://dri.es/acquia-search-benefits-for-site-administrators)

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