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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Nair, Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

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By: Nair, Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya

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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.

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Introduction to Solr 7

Introduction to Solr

Why choose Solr?

Solr use cases

What's new in Solr 7?

Summary

Getting Started

Solr installation

Understanding various files and the folder structure

Running Solr

Loading sample data

Understanding the browse interface

Using the Solr admin interface

Summary

Designing Schemas

How Solr works

Understanding field types

Field management

Mastering Schema API

Deciphering schemaless mode

Summary

Mastering Text Analysis Methodologies

Understanding text analysis

Understanding analyzer

Understanding tokenizers

Understanding filters

Understanding multilingual analysis

Understanding phonetic matching

Summary

Data Indexing and Operations

Basics of Solr indexing

Understanding index handlers

Apache Tika and indexing

Language detection

Client APIs

Summary

Advanced Queries – Part I

Search relevance

Velocity search UI

Query parsing and syntax

Response writer

Faceting

Highlighting

Summary

Advanced Queries – Part II

Spellchecking

Suggester

Pagination

Result grouping

Result clustering

Spatial search

Summary

Managing and Fine-Tuning Solr

JVM configuration

Managing solrconfig.xml

Managing backups

JMX with Solr

Logging configuration

SolrCloud overview

Enabling SSL – Solr security

Performance statistics

Summary

Client APIs – An Overview

Client API overview

JavaScript Client API

SolrJ Client API

Ruby Client API

Python Client API

Summary

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Solr installation

Let's get up and running with Solr. At the time of writing of this book, the latest stable version of Solr was 7.1.0. This book focuses all its aspects on Apache Solr 7.1.0.

Getting up and running with Apache Solr requires the following prerequisites:

Java 8 (mandatory)
Cygwin (optional, recommended for Windows)
curl (optional, recommended)

So, you will necessarily require JRE version 1.8 or higher for Solr to run. Go ahead! Open Command Prompt, type the following command, and check your Java version:

java -version

It should show the following output:

If your output is something different, it means Java is not properly installed and it needs to be installed properly. Also, the PATH variable should point to JRE 1.8. You can download Java from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html if needed.

Cygwin and curl utilities are...