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I'm looking for a good document store for a project where I'll need to save attachments of almost any kind.

The requirements are:

  • full-text search capabilities
  • updating/versioning control
  • several document types (full-text search initially only on text-based docs, I might take care of further integration on meta-data information, OCR integration or whatever in further steps using Apache Tika or similar tools).
  • multi-user capable (I guess this can be also extended in the application side if it's not supported as is)

I am not sure that Jackrabbit and Elasticsearch/SOLR are directly comparable, but it seems to me that both may fulfil my specs. Of course I'm open to other products as long as they meet my requirements.

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  • Please note that this site doesn't feature requests for product comparisions: SR is about suggesting specific software for specific needs you define. For details, see: Is tool x versus tool y a fair question? I've adjusted your question accordingly, and hope that fits you. As for the tags used: Must the software be written in Java? Are there any OS-dependencies (e.g. must it run on Windows/Linux/iOS/…)? Must it be accessible via the network? Multi-user capable?
    – Izzy ♦
    Sep 8, 2015 at 11:40
  • perfect, and sorry for the extra effort.
    – aluncob
    Sep 8, 2015 at 12:59
  • Always glad to help. But can you please fill in the gaps I've mentioned? You can always edit your post with additional information.
    – Izzy ♦
    Sep 8, 2015 at 14:47

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Alfresco fits the requirements:

  • It includes Solr, and full-text search works out-of-the-box.
  • Apache Tika is also included out-of-the-box, so metadata is extracted from most file formats.
  • Alfresco of course performs versioning, and is multi-user. I use it everyday to collaborate with my colleagues.

You can use Alfresco either via its UI or via any of the APIs it supports: CMIS, JCR, WebDAV, FTP, CIFS.

OCR is not available out-of-the-box, but I have integrated it (using Tesseract) for a customer, it was relatively easy.

Alfresco is free and open source.

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  • Can Alfresco be used via API? or is it just an UI over Jackrabbit adding some extra functionality like the apache Tika one? I need to use the Content repo programatically to integrate it into my application and I saw that Alfresco is built on top of Jackrabbit, so I don't know whether I should go for the basics in this chance. Any clue would be great.
    – aluncob
    Sep 9, 2015 at 14:39
  • Alfresco is not based on Jackrabbit. I added to my answer a paragraph listing all of the standard APIs that Alfresco supports.
    – Nicolas Raoul ♦
    Sep 10, 2015 at 1:53

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