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Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server - Third Edition

By : David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, Matt Mitchell
Book Image

Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server - Third Edition

By: David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa, Matt Mitchell

Overview of this book

<p>Solr Apache is a widely popular open source enterprise search server that delivers powerful search and faceted navigation features—features that are elusive with databases. Solr supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-checking, relevancy tuning, geospatial searches, and much more.</p> <p>This book is a comprehensive resource for just about everything Solr has to offer, and it will take you from first exposure to development and deployment in no time. Even if you wish to use Solr 5, you should find the information to be just as applicable due to Solr's high regard for backward compatibility. The book includes some useful information specific to Solr 5.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Resources outside this book


The following are some Solr resources other than this book:

  • Apache Solr 4 Cookbook, Rafał Kuć is another Solr book published by Packt Publishing. It is a style of book that comprises a series of posed questions or problems followed by their solution. You can find this at www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/apache-solr-4-cookbook.

  • Apache Solr Reference Guide is a detailed, online resource contributed by Lucidworks to the Solr community. You can find the latest version at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Apache+Solr+Reference+Guide. Consider downloading the PDF corresponding to the Solr release you are using.

  • Solr's Wiki at http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ has a lot of great documentation and miscellaneous information. For a Wiki, it's fairly organized too. In particular, if you use a particular app-server in production, then there is probably a Wiki page there on specific details.

  • Within the Solr installation, you will also find that there are README.txt files in many directories within Solr and that the configuration files are very well documented. Read them!

    The mailing list contains a wealth of information. If you have a few discriminating keywords, then you can find nuggets of information in there with a search engine. The mailing lists of Solr and other Lucene subprojects are best searched at http://find.searchhub.org/ or http://search-lucene.com/solr or http://nabble.com.

    Note

    We highly recommend that you subscribe to the Solr-users mailing list. You'll learn a lot and potentially help others, too.

  • Solr's issue tracker contains information on enhancements and bugs. It's available at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR and it uses Atlassian's JIRA software. Some of the comments attached to these issues can be extensive and enlightening.

    Note

    Notation convention

    Solr's JIRA issues are referenced like this—SOLR-64. You'll see such references in this book and elsewhere. You can easily look these up at Solr's JIRA. You might also see issues for Lucene that follow the same convention, for example, LUCENE-1215.

There are, of course, resources for Lucene, such as Lucene In Action, Second Edition, Michael McCandless, Erik Hatcher, and Otis Gospodneti, Manning Publications. If you intend to dive into Solr's internals, then you will find Lucene resources helpful, but that is not the focus of this book.