Configure and Administrate Solr search platform
Solr (pronounced “solar”) is an open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Providing distributed search and index replication, Solr is highly scalable. Solr is the most popular enterprise search engine.
Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Apache Tomcat or Jetty. Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it usable from most popular programming languages. Solr’s powerful external configuration allows it to be tailored to many types of application without Java coding, and it has a plugin architecture to support more advanced customization.
Overview
This training course teaches system administrators how to install and administer Solr.
Prerequisites
Base experience with system administration on Microsoft Windows, UNIX, or Linux operating systems.
Lessons
The Fundamentals
Lesson : 1 | Duration 1.5 hours
- About Solr, Installing and running Solr, Adding content to Solr, Reading a Solr XML response, Changing parameters in the URL, Using the browse interface
Searching
Lesson : 2 | Duration 1.5 hours
- Sorting results, Query parsers, More queries, Hardwiring request parameters, Adding fields to default search, Faceting, Result grouping
Indexing
Lesson : 3 | Duration 1.5 hours
- Adding your own content to Solr, Deleting data from solr, Building a bookstore search, Adding book data, Exploring the book data, Dedupe updateprocessor
Updating your schema
Lesson : 4 | Duration 1.5 hours
- Adding fields to the schema, Analyzing text
Relevance
Lesson : 5 | Duration 1.5 hours
- Field weighting, Phrase queries, Function queries, Fuzzier search, Sounds-like