Comparison

Apache Solr vs Elasticsearch

On the evidence we track, Elasticsearch leads this comparison with a composite score of 60/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Apache Solr full profile →Elasticsearch full profile →

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Apache Solr54

★Elasticsearch60

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Apache Solr	ElasticsearchLeader
Vioscale score	54 / 100low · 40%	60 / 100medium · 50%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	commercial
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	low
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✗
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	10	25
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	-	6.9
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=apache-solr%2Fsolr&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	Count: 45 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 2 · Max severity: HIGH
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	-	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	0	18,551
Github starsadoption.github_stars	1,667	77,862
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	100
Release
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Java	Java
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	-	Available worldwide · Popular in US

Score

Vioscale score

Apache Solr54 / 100low · 40%

Elasticsearch60 / 100medium · 50%

Pricing

Free tier

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch✓

Model

Apache Solrcommercial

Elasticsearchcommercial

Price level

Apache Solrfree

Elasticsearchlow

Transparent

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch✗

Integrations

Count

Apache Solr10

Elasticsearch25

Security

Disclosure policy

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch–

Scorecard

Apache Solr–

Elasticsearch6.9

Vulnerabilities

Apache SolrCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=apache-solr%2Fsolr&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

ElasticsearchCount: 45 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=org.elasticsearch%3Aelasticsearch&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 2 · Max severity: HIGH

Reliability

Status page

Apache Solr–

Elasticsearch✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Apache Solr0

Elasticsearch18,551

Github stars

Apache Solr1,667

Elasticsearch77,862

Activity

Commits last 30d

Apache Solr100

Elasticsearch100

Release

History

Apache Solr–

Elasticsearch20 items

License

Spdx

Apache SolrApache-2.0

Elasticsearch–

Language

Primary

Apache SolrJava

ElasticsearchJava

Market

Availability

Apache Solr–

ElasticsearchAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for search engines. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Search Engines
Capability	Apache Solr	Elasticsearch
Deployment
Deployment	Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Architecture
Index engine	Lucene	Lucene
Query
Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)	HTTP REST API with JSON/XML/CSV	ES\|QL
Faceting & filtering	Yes	Yes
Geo search	✓	✓
Relevance
Typo tolerance / fuzzy	-	Built-in
Relevance tuning	-	Learning-to-rank
Vector
Vector / hybrid search	Dense + lexical fusion	Dense + lexical fusion
Scale
Distributed / horizontal scale	Clustered	Sharded
Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)	✓	✓
Ingest
Real-time indexing	Near-real-time	Near-real-time
Workload
Log / analytics workload	-	✓
Licensing
Licence class	Permissive OSS	Source-available (SSPL / Elastic)

Deployment

Apache SolrSelf-hosted

ElasticsearchSelf-hosted

Architecture

Index engine

Apache SolrLucene

ElasticsearchLucene

Query

Query DSL (JSON / SQL / params / GraphQL)

Apache SolrHTTP REST API with JSON/XML/CSV

ElasticsearchES|QL

Faceting & filtering

Apache SolrYes

ElasticsearchYes

Geo search

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch✓

Relevance

Typo tolerance / fuzzy

Apache Solr-

ElasticsearchBuilt-in

Relevance tuning

Apache Solr-

ElasticsearchLearning-to-rank

Vector

Vector / hybrid search

Apache SolrDense + lexical fusion

ElasticsearchDense + lexical fusion

Scale

Distributed / horizontal scale

Apache SolrClustered

ElasticsearchSharded

Multi-tenancy (indexes / collections / tenants)

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch✓

Ingest

Real-time indexing

Apache SolrNear-real-time

ElasticsearchNear-real-time

Workload

Log / analytics workload

Apache Solr-

Elasticsearch✓

Licensing

Licence class

Apache SolrPermissive OSS

ElasticsearchSource-available (SSPL / Elastic)

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Apache Solr

Apache Solr is a server-based search platform built on Apache Lucene, enabling full-text, vector, and geospatial search through HTTP REST APIs. It supports distributed indexing, fault-tolerant replication, and near real-time query processing with multi-tenant support.

Independently observed

Elasticsearch

Leader

A search and analytics platform that ingests, stores, and searches structured, unstructured, and vector data in real time. Supports full-text search, vector search, observability analytics, and security event analysis through a unified REST API and query language.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Apache Solr

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Elasticsearch

Leader

free|open_source|quoteFree tier14-day trial

Free open-source tier; Platinum and Enterprise tiers available on request

Free and OpenFree
- Distributed vector and search engine
- Full-text, semantic, and vector search
- Kibana interface for querying and visualization
- Native authentication and TLS encryption
- Basic monitoring via Stack Monitoring
- +3 more
PlatinumContact sales
- Everything in Free plus:
- Single sign-on (SSO), LDAP/Active Directory
- Field and document-level security
- Audit logging
- Machine learning anomaly detection
- +4 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Platinum plus:
- Searchable snapshots on low-cost object storage (up to 80% cost reduction)
- Attack Discovery (GenAI security)
- Universal Profiling for application performance
- Cross-cluster search with advanced API-key security
- +6 more

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Apache Solr	Elasticsearch
WebPlatforms	✗	✓
LinuxPlatforms	✓	✗
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✗	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✗	✓
Air-gappedDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Apache Solr✗

Elasticsearch✓

Linux

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch✗

CLI

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Apache Solr✗

Elasticsearch✓

Self-hosted

Apache Solr✓

Elasticsearch✓

On-premise

Apache Solr✗

Elasticsearch✓

Air-gapped

Apache Solr✗

Elasticsearch✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Apache Solr

10 total

Apache Lucene
Apache Zookeeper
Apache Tika
Docker
Kubernetes
Apache ManifoldCF
Apache Spark
Apache Nutch
Apache Zeppelin
Apache OpenNLP

Independently observed

Elasticsearch

Leader

25 total

Slack
Jira
ServiceNow
PagerDuty
Microsoft Teams
IBM Resilient
xMatters
GitHub
Jina AI
NVIDIA AI
Prometheus
Grafana
AWS Bedrock
Sarvam AI
Google ADK
LlamaParse
Mistral
Elastic Agent
Beats
Logstash
Filebeat
Metricbeat
Heartbeat
Webhooks
+1 more

Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.