I have used and spent time with both products and I couldn't disagree with this more. In my opinion, Elasticsearch is the more mature product and has been around longer than Solr Cloud (ES 2/2010, Solr Cloud 10/2012)[0][1], if you count Compass developement (ES' precursor) than even longer. Where ES was built from the ground up with clustering in mind, this is a feature that is certainly a primary focus for Solr Cloud but not a key feature for much of Solr's development. I would also contend that, in my opinion, there is no basis for the assessment that Solr Cloud provides "more power" than ES.
Elasticsearch has been an open project for some time, and they have recently formed a for-profit company in order to push the project forward even more. Certainly the Apache Project has an investment in Solr and, I certainly hope, that the project will continue even if Lucid Works (who employs 25% of the Solr developers)[2] were to close up shop.
Elasticsearch has been an open project for some time, and they have recently formed a for-profit company in order to push the project forward even more. Certainly the Apache Project has an investment in Solr and, I certainly hope, that the project will continue even if Lucid Works (who employs 25% of the Solr developers)[2] were to close up shop.
[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr
[2]: http://www.lucidworks.com/about-us/