Apache Solr Enterprise Search Server

by David Smiley, Eric Pugh, Kranti Parisa

Enhance your searches with faceted navigation, result highlighting, relevancy-ranked sorting, and much more with this comprehensive guide to Apache Solr 4About This BookAn 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 searchContains integration examples with databases, web crawlers, Hadoop, XSLT, Java and embedded Solr, PHP and Drupal, JavaScript, and Ruby frameworksLearn about deployment considerations including security, logging, monitoring, running ZooKeeper, and measuring performanceWho This Book Is ForThis 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 LearnDesign a schema to include text indexing details such as tokenization, stemming, and synonymsImport data from databases using various formats including CSV and XML and extract text from different document formatsSearch using Solr's rich query syntax, perform geospatial searches, "join" relationally, and influence relevancy orderBuild a query auto-complete/suggester capability with knowledge of the fundamental types of suggestion and ways to implement themEnhance standard searches with faceting for navigation or analyticsDeploy Solr to production taking into account logging, security, and monitoringIntegrate a host of technologies with Solr including web crawlers, Hadoop, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Drupal, and othersTune Solr and use SolrCloud for horizontal scalabilityIn DetailSolr 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.

432 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 31, 2013

About the author

Colonel David de Crespigny Smiley, LVO, OBE, MC & Bar (1916 - 2009) was a British special forces and intelligence officer. He fought in the Second World War in Palestine, Iraq, Persia, Syria, Western Desert and with Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Albania and Thailand.

He was Commander of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman's Armed Forces between 1958 and 1961.

Reviews

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is pretty similar to others on the same topic but has a good deal of integration information.