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Apache Solr 4 Cookbook

By : Rafał Kuć
Book Image

Apache Solr 4 Cookbook

By: Rafał Kuć

Overview of this book

<p>Apache Solr is a blazing fast, scalable, open source Enterprise search server built upon Apache Lucene. Solr is wildly popular because it supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-checking, and relevancy tuning, amongst other numerous features.<br /><br />"Apache Solr 4 Cookbook" will show you how to get the most out of your search engine. Full of practical recipes and examples, this book will show you how to set up Apache Solr, tune and benchmark performance as well as index and analyze your data to provide better, more precise, and useful search data.<br /><br />"Apache Solr 4 Cookbook" will make your search better, more accurate and faster with practical recipes on essential topics such as SolrCloud, querying data, search faceting, text and data analysis, and cache configuration.<br /><br />With numerous practical chapters centered on important Solr techniques and methods, Apache Solr 4 Cookbook is an essential resource for developers who wish to take their knowledge and skills further. Thoroughly updated and improved, this Cookbook also covers the changes in Apache Solr 4 including the awesome capabilities of SolrCloud.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Apache Solr 4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing your SolrCloud cluster


In addition to creating a new collection with the API exposed by SolrCloud, we are also allowed to use two additional operations. The first is to delete our collection and the second one is to reload the whole collection. Along with the ability to create new collections, we are able to dynamically manage our cluster. This recipe will show you how to use the delete and reload operations and where they can be useful.

Getting ready

The content of this recipe is based on the Setting up two collections inside a single cluster recipe in this chapter. Please read it before continuing.

How to do it...

I assume that we already have two collection deployed on our cluster –bookscollection and userscollection – the same ones that we configured in the Setting up two collections inside a single cluster recipe in this chapter. So our cluster view looks similar to the following screenshot:

  1. First, let's delete one of the collections – userscollection. To do this, we send the...