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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

Using the Solr admin interface


Solr provides a web interface for feasibility of Solr administrators and programmers to perform the following operations easily:

  • View Solr configuration details
  • Run different queries against indexes
  • Analyze document fields to fine-tune the Solr config set
  • Provide a schema browser for easy querying
  • Show the java properties of each core

And much more... Under the hood, Solr reuses the same HTTP APIs that are available to all clients. Let us look at the Solr admin panel in detail. Go and start up Solr with the config set we created earlier. Accessing http://localhost:7574/solr or http://localhost:8983/solr will open up the Solr admin dashboard. The whole screen is divided into two parts:

  • The left part showing the navigational menu
  • The right part showing the interface selected menu

Let's take a deep dive into each of the sections.

Dashboard

This is the default page that opens up whenever we open Solr. The dashboard contains various pieces of information:

  • Instance details:...