This reference guide describes Apache Solr, an open source solution for search. You can download Apache Solr at www.lucidimagination.com/downloads. This guide contains the following sections:
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Getting Started: Installing Solr and getting it running for the first time Using the Solr Administration User Interface: How to use the built-in UI Documents, Fields, and Schema Design: Designing the index for optimal retrieval Understanding Analyzers, Tokenizers, and Filters: Setting up Solr to handle your content Indexing and Basic Data Operations: Indexing your content |
Searching: Ways to improve the search experience for your users The Well-Configured Solr Instance: Optimal settings to keep the system running smooth Managing Solr: Web containers, logging and backups Scaling and Distribution: Best practices for increasing system capacity Client APIs: Clients that can be used to provide search interfaces for users |
Solr and Lucene
Solr makes it easy for programmers to develop sophisticated, high-performance search applications with advanced features such as faceting (arranging search results in columns with numerical counts of key terms). Solr builds on another open source search technology: Lucene, a Java library that provides indexing and search technology, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. Both Solr and Lucene are managed by the Apache Software Foundation (www.apache.org).
The Lucene search library currently ranks among the top 15 open source projects and is one of the top 5 Apache projects, with installations at over 4,000 companies. Lucene/Solr downloads have grown nearly ten times over the past three years, with a current run-rate of over 6,000 downloads a day. The Solr search server, which provides application builders a ready-to-use search platform on top of the Lucene search library, is the fastest growing Lucene sub-project. Apache Lucene/Solr offers an attractive alternative to the proprietary licensed search and discovery software vendors.
Lucid Imagination
Lucid Imagination is the first commercial company exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open source technology. To learn more about Lucid Imagination, please see www.lucidimagination.com. The Lucid Imagination founding team consists of several key contributors and committers to the Lucene project, as well as experts in enterprise search software development.
We provide the planet's best search solution development platforms built on the power of Solr/Lucene open source search. LucidWorks Enterprise makes the power of Solr/Lucene open source search more accessible to the broad range of application developers and slashes the learning curve for search solution development. Unlike "black box" products, LucidWorks Enterprise allows organizations of all sizes and types to continuously tune their search to fit the ongoing needs of their users and achieve a consistently lower cost of growth.
Lucid Imagination also offers free software for developers, documentation, commercial-grade support, high-level consulting, and comprehensive training. Customers include AT&T, Sears, Ford, Verizon, Cisco, Zappos, Raytheon, The Guardian, The Smithsonian Institution, Salesforce.com, The MotleyFool, Macy's, Qualcomm, Taser, eHarmony, and many other household names around the world.
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Page: Further Assistance
Page: Getting Started
Page: Using the Solr Administration User Interface
Page: Documents, Fields, and Schema Design
Page: Understanding Analyzers, Tokenizers, and Filters
Page: Indexing and Basic Data Operations
Page: Searching
Page: The Well-Configured Solr Instance
Page: Managing Solr
Page: Scaling and Distribution
Page: Client APIs