Managed Fusion versus Fusion

With Managed Fusion, 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 Managed Fusion. The following table is a partial comparison of the products based on the most current release of Fusion.

Feature	Fusion (self-hosted)	Managed Fusion	Notes
Cloud signal storage	✘	✅
Consumption dashboard	✅	✅	Entitlements and limitation metrics apply to Managed Fusion 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 Managed Fusion clients.
Grafana dashboards	Custom	Read-only
Managed Fusion-only releases	✘	✅	Some releases and features are only available for Managed Fusion 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.

Feature

Fusion (self-hosted)

Managed Fusion

Notes

Cloud signal storage

✘

✅

Consumption dashboard

✅

Entitlements and limitation metrics apply to Managed Fusion 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 Managed Fusion clients.

Grafana dashboards

Custom

Read-only

Managed Fusion-only releases

✘

✅

Some releases and features are only available for Managed Fusion 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.