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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

Understanding the browse interface


Now that our Solr is loaded up with data, we will look at multiple queries and the browse interface, through which we can query without actually knowing the end points. The data provided in techproducts includes a wide variety of fields along with geospatial indexes. So let's use that for a change. Open up the terminal and hit bin\solr.cmd -e techproducts -p 4202. As we have loaded a sample techproducts config set, it will import a bunch of files into the collection while starting up the server.

Once the server is up and running, hit http://localhost:4202/solr/techproducts/browse to check out the browse interface provided by Solr, as shown in the following screenshot:

It is just another Google search for electronics now. Go ahead and type the query string parameter. It will autocomplete and display the results as needed.

The following screenshot explains the browse interface in a lot of detail:

This feature makes use of the solariatis velocity contrib, which...