Unlike many commercial content management systems, Alfresco includes free and very powerful search engines called Lucene and Solr as part of its installation. Therefore, you don't have to buy and install a third-party search engine. Moreover, you don't have to deal with integration issues and upgrades.
Using Alfresco, you will be able to search both content and properties. You can do a full-text search on any word in the content, regardless of the format. You can search for content in a particular space. You can also search for content belonging to certain categories or of a specific type. You can search for content created or modified between certain dates, created by a specific person, and so on. You can extend the search capabilities to search for custom content type and custom property values.
By default, the content in Alfresco is full-text searchable. Any content that is uploaded to Alfresco, such as the following types, will be internally converted to text, indexed, and made...