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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

Deciphering schemaless mode


Schemaless mode is used when we want to quickly create a useful schema by indexing sample data. It does not involve any manual editing of the data.

All of its features are managed by solrconfig.xml.

The features that we are particularly interested in are:

  • Managed schema: All modifications in the schema are made via Solr API at runtime using schemaFactory, which supports these changes.
  • Field value class guessing: This is a technique of using a cascading set of parsers on fields that have not been seen before. It then guesses whether the field is an Integer, Long, Float, Double, Boolean, or Date.

And finally used for automatic schema field addition that is based on field value classes.

Creating a schemaless example

All of the preceding three features are already configured in the Solr bundle. To start using schemaless mode, run the following command:

bin/solr start -e schemaless

This will start a single Solr server with the collection gettingstarted.

In order to see the schema...