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BA Insight vs Lucene comparison

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Categories and Ranking

BA Insight
Ranking in Indexing and Search
20th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Lucene
Ranking in Indexing and Search
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Indexing and Search category, the mindshare of BA Insight is 2.7%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lucene is 5.4%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Indexing and Search Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Lucene5.4%
BA Insight2.7%
Other91.9%
Indexing and Search
 

Featured Reviews

it_user265773 - PeerSpot reviewer
GDS Search Services Leader, Knowledge Services at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Refiners help to easily narrow down results based on metadata applied to content. Previews allow users to take action from search results without opening the document.
The preview feature made the results page take too long to load. It also took a long time to generate document previews. Randomly, it would show “cannot load preview”. I do not know the reason, but that happened a lot and we had to turn this feature off. Preview load time could be reduced. We saw that it takes forever to load a document preview, and at times, after waiting, it just gave a ‘cannot load preview error’.
it_user1158 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
One of the best open source date indexing tools available, with support for various popular file formats like PDF, HTML, etc.
- For Java users, there is a performance penalty due to the well known fact that JVM(Java Virtual Memory) is a memory hogger. Scalability is an issue as well. - If you have a requirement of adding custom algorithms for indexing data, you might face a little difficulty, as there is not much information available either in Lucene forums or mailing lists. Though community support is excellent for Java users, for other area specific Programming Platforms like Perl, and Delphi, it is a bit difficult to get solutions for your problems, as the tool is still not that stable in these platforms and is still in the incubation phase.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Refiners help to easily narrow down results based on metadata applied to content, and the preview feature helps users to take action from the search results page without opening the documents."
"A very good product for indexing huge data with a very fast response time for search queries."
 

Cons

"The preview feature made the results page take too long to load."
"If you have a requirement of adding custom algorithms for indexing data, you might face a little difficulty, as there is not much information available either in Lucene forums or mailing lists."
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Also Known As

BA Insight Enterprise Search Essentials, BA Insight Enterprise Search
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