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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

Boosting phrases over words


Imagine you are a search expert at a leading e-commerce shop in your region. One day disaster strikes and your marketing department says that the search results are not good enough. They would like you to favor documents that have the exact phrase typed by the user over the documents that have matches for separate words. Can you do it? Of course you can, and this recipe will show you how to achieve it.

Getting ready

Before you start reading this task I suggest you read the How to search for a phrase not a single word recipe in this chapter. It will allow you to understand the recipe better.

How to do it...

I assume that we will be using the DisMax query parser, not the standard one. We will also use the same schema.xml file that was used in the How to search for a phrase not a single word recipe in this chapter.

  1. Let's start with our sample data file which looks like the following code:

    <add>
     <doc>
      <field name="id">1</field>
      <field name...