Solr in Action (1 ed)

Whether you’re working with massive datasets, managing documents, or building a website, the ability to search efficiently and extract meaningful insights is essential. Enter Apache Solr: a powerful, open-source, Lucene-based full-text search engine, ready to deploy and built to scale across multiple servers for real-time queries and analytics over billions of documents.

Solr in Action is your hands-on guide to implementing scalable search with Apache Solr. This accessible book balances conceptual explanations with practical examples, showing you how to leverage all of Solr’s core capabilities. You’ll master topics such as text analysis, faceted search, hit highlighting, result grouping, query suggestions, multilingual search, advanced geospatial and data operations, and relevancy tuning.

The book assumes basic knowledge of Java and standard database technologies, with no prior experience required in Solr or Lucene.

Purchasing the print edition includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

What’s Inside:

• Techniques to scale Solr for big data
• Rich, real-world examples
• Using Solr as a NoSQL data store
• Advanced multilingual, data, and relevancy strategies
• Coverage through Solr 4.7