Faceted Search module

My organization loves the interface that the Faceted Search module provides. However, we are trying to transition away from the module to use Apache Solr since Faceted Search is so taxing on the database.

We have pages that have custom Faceted Search environments on them that display the taxonomy facets, and a count of how many nodes there are for each taxonomy term. See an example at http://www.urbanministry.org/volunteer/volunteer-search. (The page takes a while to load; that's the main reason we'd like to switch.)

Hi:

I am a relative newbie and have been reading up on the different types of search available to Drupal. I am most interested in faceted search for my particular needs. Solr seems great but,as a startup, I have a tight budget so I'm trying to decide between the Lucene API Module or the Faceted Search Module, both of which also seem great, but I have a few questions....