AEM/Magento Search Integration with CIF 2

Hey All,

So we are using the new CIF (0.9.0 soon to go to 0.10.0), and we have a search and search results for the full site. I know how to use search within AEM and search within CIF/Magento, but I don't see how they work together? Since we are not pulling in the products anymore we don't have them indexed in Lucene so I can't make a single call to search. I know you can probably use solr but that will be additional cost to my client, has anyone else run into this problem? Is there any creative solutions to this problem?