Apache Solr Beginner S Guide

Search is everywhere, yet it is one of the most misunderstood functionalities of the IT industry. In Apache Solr, author Xavier Morera guides you through the basics of this highly popular enterprise search tool. You'll learn how to set up an index and how to make it searchable, then query it with a simple enterprise search. Explanations for precision and recall are also included to help you ensure that relevant, accurate results have been returned. Custom UIs using Solritas and SolrNet are also covered. This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject's core elements. A flowing writing style combines with the use of illustrations and diagrams throughout the text to ensure the reader understands even the most complex of concepts. This succinct and enlightening overview is a required reading for all those interested in the subject . We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career & Business.

Search is everywhere, yet it is one of the most misunderstood functionalities of the IT industry. In Apache Solr, author Xavier Morera guides you through the basics of this highly popular enterprise search tool. You'll learn how to set up an index and how to make it searchable, then query it with a simple enterprise search. Explanations for precision and recall are also included to help you ensure that relevant, accurate results have been returned. Custom UIs using Solritas and SolrNet are also covered. This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject's core elements. A flowing writing style combines with the use of illustrations and diagrams throughout the text to ensure the reader understands even the most complex of concepts. This succinct and enlightening overview is a required reading for all those interested in the subject . We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career & Business.

Search is everywhere, yet it is one of the most misunderstood functionalities of the IT industry. In Apache Solr, author Xavier Morera guides you through the basics of this highly popular enterprise search tool. You'll learn how to set up an index and how to make it searchable, then query it with a simple enterprise search. Explanations for precision and recall are also included to help you ensure that relevant, accurate results have been returned. Custom UIs using Solritas and SolrNet are also covered. This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject's core elements. A flowing writing style combines with the use of illustrations and diagrams throughout the text to ensure the reader understands even the most complex of concepts. This succinct and enlightening overview is a required reading for all those interested in the subject . We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career & Business.

Written in a friendly, example-driven format, the book includes plenty of step-by-step instructions and examples that are designed to help you get started with Apache Solr.This book is an entry level text into the wonderful world of Apache Solr. The book will center around a couple of simple projects such as setting up Solr and all the stuff that comes with customizing the Solr schema and configuration. This book is for developers looking to start using Apache Solr who are stuck or intimidated by the difficulty of setting it up and using it.For anyone wanting to embed a search engine in their site to help users navigate around the mammoth data available this book is an ideal starting point. Moreover, if you are a data architect or a project manager and want to make some key design decisions, you will find that every example included in the book contains ideas usable in real-world contexts.

Summary Solr in Action is a comprehensive guide to implementing scalable search using Apache Solr. This clearly written book walks you through well-documented examples ranging from basic keyword searching to scaling a system for billions of documents and queries. It will give you a deep understanding of how to implement core Solr capabilities. About the Book Whether you're handling big (or small) data, managing documents, or building a website, it is important to be able to quickly search through your content and discover meaning in it. Apache Solr is your tool: a ready-to-deploy, Lucene-based, open source, full-text search engine. Solr can scale across many servers to enable real-time queries and data analytics across billions of documents. Solr in Action teaches you to implement scalable search using Apache Solr. This easy-to-read guide balances conceptual discussions with practical examples to show you how to implement all of Solr's core capabilities. You'll master topics like text analysis, faceted search, hit highlighting, result grouping, query suggestions, multilingual search, advanced geospatial and data operations, and relevancy tuning. This book assumes basic knowledge of Java and standard database technology. No prior knowledge of Solr or Lucene is required. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. What's Inside How to scale Solr for big data Rich real-world examples Solr as a NoSQL data store Advanced multilingual, data, and relevancy tricks Coverage of versions through Solr 4.7 About the Authors Trey Grainger is a director of engineering at CareerBuilder. Timothy Potter is a senior member of the engineering team at LucidWorks. The authors work on the scalability and reliability of Solr, as well as on recommendation engine and big data analytics technologies. Table of Contents PART 1 MEET SOLR Introduction to Solr Getting to know Solr Key Solr concepts Configuring Solr Indexing Text analysis PART 2 CORE SOLR CAPABILITIES Performing queries and handling results Faceted search Hit highlighting Query suggestions Result grouping/field collapsing Taking Solr to production PART 3 TAKING SOLR TO THE NEXT LEVEL SolrCloud Multilingual search Complex query operations Mastering relevancy

Topic: In the open source, full-text search community, a leader emerges – Apache Solr. Apache Solr enables you to index and access documents orders of magnitude faster than classical databases and thereby provides a first-class search experience to your end users. Brief Description: Mastering Apache Solr is a practical, hands-on guide containing crisp, relevant, systematically arranged, and progressive chapters. These chapters contain a wealth of information presented in a direct and easy-to-understand manner. This book covers key technical concepts, highlighting Solr's supremacy over classical databases in full-text search, which will help you accelerate your progress in the Solr world. Detailed Description: Mastering Apache Solr starts with an introduction to Apache Solr, its underlying technologies, the main differences between the classical database engines, and gradually moves to more advance topics like boosting performance. In this book, we will look under the hood of a large number of topics and discuss answers to pertinent questions like why denormalize data, how to import classical databases' data inside Apache Solr, how to serve Solr through five different web servers, how to optimize them to serve Solr even faster. An important and major topic covered in this book is Solr's querying mechanism, which will prove to be a strong ally in our journey through this book. We then look at boosting performance and deploying Solr using several servlet servers. Finally, we cover how to communicate with Solr using different programming languages, before deploying it in a cloud-based environment. Who this book is for: Mastering Apache Solr has been written for developers, programmers, and data specialists who want to take a leap towards the future of full-text storage and search and offer a world-class experience to their users. The reader is expected to have a working knowledge of traditional databases, Linux-based operating systems, and XML configuration files. Style and Approach: Mastering Apache Solr is written lucidly and has a dynamically simple approach. From the first page to the last, the book remains practical and focuses on the most important topics used in the world of Apache Solr without neglecting important theoretical fundamentals that help you build a strong foundation. Conclusion: Mastering Apache Solr will empower you to provide a world-class search experience to your end users through the discovery of the powerful mechanisms presented in this book.

This book is for developers who already know how to use Solr and are looking at procuring advanced strategies for improving their search using Solr. This book is also for people who work with analytics to generate graphs and reports using Solr. Moreover, if you are a search architect who is looking forward to scale your search using Solr, this is a must have book for you. It would be helpful if you are familiar with the Java programming language.

Topic: In the open source, full-text search community, a leader emerges – Apache Solr. Apache Solr enables you to index and access documents orders of magnitude faster than classical databases and thereby provides a first-class search experience to your end users. Brief Description: Mastering Apache Solr is a practical, hands-on guide containing crisp, relevant, systematically arranged, and progressive chapters. These chapters contain a wealth of information presented in a direct and easy-to-understand manner. This book covers key technical concepts, highlighting Solr's supremacy over classical databases in full-text search, which will help you accelerate your progress in the Solr world. Detailed Description: Mastering Apache Solr starts with an introduction to Apache Solr, its underlying technologies, the main differences between the classical database engines, and gradually moves to more advance topics like boosting performance. In this book, we will look under the hood of a large number of topics and discuss answers to pertinent questions like why denormalize data, how to import classical databases' data inside Apache Solr, how to serve Solr through five different web servers, how to optimize them to serve Solr even faster. An important and major topic covered in this book is Solr's querying mechanism, which will prove to be a strong ally in our journey through this book. We then look at boosting performance and deploying Solr using several servlet servers. Finally, we cover how to communicate with Solr using different programming languages, before deploying it in a cloud-based environment. Who this book is for: Mastering Apache Solr has been written for developers, programmers, and data specialists who want to take a leap towards the future of full-text storage and search and offer a world-class experience to their users. The reader is expected to have a working knowledge of traditional databases, Linux-based operating systems, and XML configuration files. Style and Approach: Mastering Apache Solr is written lucidly and has a dynamically simple approach. From the first page to the last, the book remains practical and focuses on the most important topics used in the world of Apache Solr without neglecting important theoretical fundamentals that help you build a strong foundation. Conclusion: Mastering Apache Solr will empower you to provide a world-class search experience to your end users through the discovery of the powerful mechanisms presented in this book.