Riak Search is in fact great to work with. Something comparable for Cassandra exists with Solandra (https://github.com/tjake/Lucandra/ https://github.com/tjake

Riak Search is in fact great to work with. Something comparable for Cassandra exists with Solandra (https://github.com/tjake/Lucandra/ https://github.com/tjake/Lucandra/). A major difference is that you'll have to post your documents manually to the Solr Instance running with Solandra while Riaks post-receive hooks automatically do that for you. Also: the setup is by far not as big of a pain with Riak