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Mastering Apache Solr 7.x

By : Sandeep Nair, Chintan Mehta, Dharmesh Vasoya
Book Image

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

Chapter 6. Advanced Queries – Part I

In the previous chapter, we learned how to build indexes using various methods. In this chapter, we will see how Solr's search works. Solr comes with a large searching kit; by configuring elements from this kit, it provides users with an extensive search experience and returns impressive results with a helpful interface.

Here is a list of search functionalities provided by Solr, that put Solr in the list of desirable search engines:

  • Highlighting
  • Spell checking
  • Reranking
  • Transformation of results
  • Suggested words
  • Pagination on results
  • Expand and collapse
  • Grouping and clustering
  • Spatial search
  • More like this word
  • Autocomplete

We will look at some of these functions in detail later in this chapter, but first let's understand every component that performs an important role during searches and generates impressive results.