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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

Spatial search


Location-based data search is a very important requirement nowadays, such as searching for distances from a place, searching a house within a radius, and so on. Solr supports searching for location-based data called spatial or geospatial searches.

This can be implemented by indexing a field in each document that contains a geographical point (a latitude and longitude); and then at query time, we can find and sort documents by distance from a geolocation (latitude and longitude). The matching listings (results) can be displayed on an interactive map, in which we can zoom in/out and move the map center point to find nearby listings using spatial search. Like latitude and longitude, Solr also allows us to index geographical shapes (polygons), which are used to find a document that intersects geographical regions. Spatial search implemented by indexing a field (latitude and longitude) helps to search from a specific point, while implementing by indexing geographical shapes helps...