Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server - Third Edition

About This Book

• An update to the popular second edition of Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server, covering Solr 4’s most important new features such as SolrCloud for scaling and real-time search
• Contains integration examples with databases, web crawlers, Hadoop, XSLT, Java and embedded Solr, PHP and Drupal, JavaScript, and Ruby frameworks
• Learn about deployment considerations including security, logging, monitoring, running ZooKeeper, and measuring performance

Who This Book Is For

This book is for developers who want to learn how to get the most out of Solr in their applications, whether you are new to the field, have used Solr but don't know everything, or simply want a good reference. It would be helpful to have some familiarity with basic programming concepts, but no prior experience is required.

What You Will Learn

• Design a schema to include text indexing details such as tokenization, stemming, and synonyms
• Import data from databases using various formats including CSV and XML and extract text from different document formats
• Search using Solr's rich query syntax, perform geospatial searches, "join" relationally, and influence relevancy order
• Build a query auto-complete/suggester capability with knowledge of the fundamental types of suggestion and ways to implement them
• Enhance standard searches with faceting for navigation or analytics
• Deploy Solr to production taking into account logging, security, and monitoring
• Integrate a host of technologies with Solr including web crawlers, Hadoop, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Drupal, and others
• Tune Solr and use SolrCloud for horizontal scalability

In Detail

Solr is a widely popular open source enterprise search server that delivers powerful search and faceted navigation features—features that are elusive with databases. Solr supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-checking, relevancy tuning, geospatial searches, and much more.

This book is a comprehensive resource for just about everything Solr has to offer, and it will take you from first exposure to development and deployment in no time. Even if you wish to use Solr 5, you should find the information to be just as applicable due to Solr's high regard for backward compatibility. The book includes some useful information specific to Solr 5.