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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

Client API overview


Solr comes with a bunch of REST APIs, which exposes its features such as query, index, delete, commit, and optimize; it also allows a web application to connect with Solr and perform any operation by calling these APIs. Solr has taken care of these REST APIs such that any web application developed in any programming language can connect to them. A REST API is developed based on the HTTP protocol; so a web application developed in any programming language, such as Java, .NET, Python, and Ruby, can easily connect to and call this API to perform various Solr operations. Using this API, a web application asks Solr to perform some operations, such as querying and indexing. Solr performs those operations and provides a response to the application. Solr also supports various response formats based on programming languages such as Java, JavaScript/JSON, Python, Ruby, PHP, and many more (we have seen this in Chapter 6, Advanced Queries – Part I). So it becomes very easy for any...