Lucidworks Search versus Fusion

With Lucidworks Search, Lucidworks installs, deploys, and scales the platform for you. Some customization options are only available in self-hosted Fusion, while some machine learning features are only available in Lucidworks Search. The following table is a partial comparison of the products based on the most current release of Fusion.

Feature	Fusion (self-hosted)	Lucidworks Search	Notes
Cloud signal storage	✘	✅
Consumption dashboard	✅	✅	Entitlements and limitation metrics apply to Lucidworks Search clients only.
Custom connectors (hosted on Fusion)	✅	✘
Custom Docker images	✅	✘
Custom index stages and SDKs	✅	✘
Custom query stages and SDKs	✅	✘
Custom connectors (hosted by client)	✅	✅
Full control of your Fusion deployment	✅	✘	Lucidworks manages deployments and upgrades for Lucidworks Search clients.
Grafana dashboards	Custom	Read-only
Lucidworks Search-only releases	✘	✅	Some releases and features are only available for Lucidworks Search clients.
Port forwarding	✅	✘
Remote connectors	✅	✅	Remote connectors let you index data behind firewalls.
Reverse search	✘	✅	Reverse search lets you set up monitoring queries that automatically include new documents.

Managing Lucidworks Search

The learning path for Managing Lucidworks Search focuses on how to navigate the available technical support and resources for Lucidworks Search.

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Managing Lucidworks Search