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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By: Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

Overview of this book

Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Getting Started

"Information is the oil of the 21st Century, and analytics is the combustion engine."

– Peter Sondergaard

Apache Solr is one tool that has some common features such as full-text search, facets-based search, clustering on demand, the ability to select highlighters, indexing on demand, database integration, geospatial searches, NoSQL features, fault tolerance, scaling on demand, and the ability to handle all sorts of documents (such as PDF, docx, ppt, and more). Solr finds its intense use in enterprise searches and huge analytics. Due to such powerful features, major players in the world such as Instagram, Netflix, NASA, and eBay are using Solr.

Solr runs as a standalone server with the option of having clusters as per demand. Internally, it makes use of the Lucene Java search library and has full support of REST like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs. This makes it possible to use most of the available programming languages even without Java coding. You feed Solr data over HTTP...