You are PHP programmers and you build websites such as a job site, an e-commerce website, a content website, or others. You need to provide a search box for searching either jobs or products or other content in your website. How do you go about it? Do you do a "like" search in your database or probably use the full-text search available in MySQL—if you are using MySQL. Would you prefer to use some other platform that does the search for you and also provides you a huge set of features to tune the search as per your requirements?
Solr is an open source Java application providing an interface to the full-text search library known as Lucene. Both Solr and Lucene are a part of the Apache Lucene project. Apache Solr uses Apache Lucene as its core for search. Apache Lucene is an open source search API built in Java. In addition to full-text search, Solr also provides a huge set of features such as hit highlighting and faceted search.