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Getting started with Apache Solr Search Server

Integrate Solr as a blazing-fast open-source search solution into your enterprise web application and take your application to the next level

“Integrate Solr as a blazing-fast open-source search solution into your enterprise web application and take your application to the next level

About This Video

Teaches you everything you need to know to get started with Apache Solr such as indexing, querying, configuration, and implementation

Learn how to define a search architecture specific to your business needs

Includes walk-throughs on the Solr admin interface.

Contains a practical tutorial for integrating Solr search into a new system with an open-source web application

Presented in a hands-on, interactive style from a professional with several years of experience in search and natural language processing.

In Detail

Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world’s largest internet sites. This course will impart to you the level of understanding required to properly configure, implement, and maintain Apache Solr for an enterprise-level application.

Getting started with Apache Solr Search Server shows you how to implement the world’s leading open-source search solution with advice from an expert in the field. You will discover Solr’s many hidden features via interactive learning and configure your own Solr instance according to your business needs. This course can be followed along at home with an open-source web application you can download and run. Make search interactive and proactive with faceting, match highlighting, spell-checking, and result grouping.

Getting started with Apache Solr Search Server uses a combination of walk throughs and interactive exercises to impart end-to-end understanding of Solr’s role in a web application’s ecosystem.

You will first learn how to install Solr on your machine, configure it according to the data structures you need to search over, and integrate it into your application. This video course shows the viewer how to use, activate, and configure Solr’s many features. To keep the course interactive, an open-source example is included with detail on how to integrate Solr into an application, ranging from simple querying to advanced grouping and faceting.

Enterprise Search for Apache Solr empowers you to become your organization’s search guru with expertise in search.”

Course Curriculum

Getting Started with Solr

• Goals of the Course (1:55)
• Solr and How It Works (6:19)
• Solr’s Relative Strengths (5:43)
• Installing Solr (3:11)

Administration and Configuration

• Learning about the Solr Admin (3:46)
• Learning about the Schema File (12:40)
• The Config File (5:00)
• Navigating the Schema Browser (2:50)
• Solr Statistics and Information (3:07)

Manipulating the Index

• The Update Handler (3:26)
• Deleting and Updating Data (3:51)
• Configuring the Data Import Handler (4:34)

Querying the Index – the Basics

• Querying the Index – Basic Query Syntax (6:55)
• The Anatomy of a Response (2:59)
• Additional Query Parameters (5:07)
• The Dismax Query Parser (4:17)

Understanding the Document Schema

• Understanding Field Type Definitions (6:18)
• Analyzers and Filters (7:33)
• Understanding a Document Schema (8:30)
• Altering the Schema (3:52)

Configuring Solr

• Understanding the Config File (9:02)
• Understanding Request Handlers (4:33)
• Default Request Handlers (8:05)
• Adding a Handler (3:36)

Solr in Practice – a Use Case

• Solr in Practice – a Use Case (7:46)
• Solr in Practice – Determining a Schema from Business Requirements (4:26)
• Solr in Practice – Faceting (4:52)
• Solr in Practice – MoreLikeThis (5:22)

Advanced Concepts

• Advanced Solr – Grouping (6:56)
• Advanced Solr – Text Highlighting (4:29)
• Advanced Solr – Spelling Suggest (5:29)
• Advanced Solr – MoreLikeThis Tips and Tricks (6:04)