How does Acquia Search work, what does our infrastructure look like, and why is it a great deal for site owners?
Acquia Search is a hosted search service based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The way it works is that Drupal sites push their content to the search servers hosted by Acquia. We index the content, build an index, and handle search queries. We provide the search results, facets, and content recommendations to your Drupal site over the network. Your site’s data is protected in transit by SSL and by HMAC authentication in the Acquia Network. Plain english? The data is encrypted so anyone snooping in the middle can’t read it and the request is authenticated which means that the Acquia Network knows you sent the request you claimed to, and you know that messages received from the network are legitimate. Acquia Search is built using the Open Source Lucene and Solr distributions from the Apache project. If you want to install, run and maintain Lucene and Solr yourself, and you have the resources to do so, you can. All the code, including our contributions to the Apache Solr integr
Acquia Search is a hosted search service based on the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. The way it works is that Drupal sites push their content to the search servers hosted by Acquia. We index the content, build an index, and handle search queries. We provide the search results, facets, and content recommendations to your Drupal site over the network. Your site’s data is protected in transit by SSL and by HMAC authentication in the Acquia Network. Plain english? The data is encrypted so anyone snooping in the middle can’t read it and the request is authenticated which means that the Acquia Network knows you sent the request you claimed to, and you know that messages received from the network are legitimate. Acquia Search is built using the Open Source Lucene and Solr distributions from the Apache project. If you want to install, run and maintain Lucene and Solr yourself, and you have the resources to do so, you can. All the code, including our contributions to the Apache Solr integr
