Welcome to the Apache Solr Wiki
Contents
General Information
SOLR mailing lists: Sign-up or Search/Browse the Mailing List Archives
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The Solr FAQ and the Solr Relevancy FAQ
SolrResources - Books, Blogs, Reviews, Articles, Product Sheet, Presentations, etc...
Support - People and companies for hire
Solr Change Log with all the juicy info about recently committed features.
Solr Development
HackingSolr -- Info for people interested in hacking and customizing the Solr application
TestingSolr -- Information for running Solr unit tests
NightlyBuilds -- Jenkins (formerly Hudson) hosts nightly Solr builds
Latest stable code for 3.x branch (svn URL).
TaskList of ideas for future development
HowToContribute improvements
HowToCompileSolr -- steps tested under Windows 7 / Windows 8
Using Solr
Installation and Configuration
- Includes information about useful settings in specific environments
CoreAdmin (i.e. MultiCore)
Search and Indexing
- Indexing Documents
Adding Documents in XML format - Covers XML syntax for adds, deletes, commits and optimizes
Adding Documents in JSON format - Covers JSON syntax for adds, deletes, commits and optimizes
DataImportHandler - Solr contrib that supports full and delta indexing directly from SQL databases, and local or REST accessible XML files.
AnalysisRequestHandler - Analyzing documents without indexing
Solr Content Extraction Library (Solr Cell) - Covers how to index MS Word, PDF, etc. using Solr Cell (a.k.a. ExtractingRequestHandler). Also see the older version at UpdateRichDocuments
Update Processors - Update Processors define how an update request is processed.
Deduplication - prevent or tag duplicate documents
LanguageDetection - Identify the language of documents and mark them.
- Searching Solr
Request Handlers - Control the logic used to process requests. Several different Request Handlers are included with Solr, or you can write your own custom implementation.
Response Writers - Control the formating of the responses generated by Request Handlers. Several different Response Writers are included with Solr, or you can write your own custom implementation.
- Input Parameters
QueryParametersIndex - index of query parameters in following wiki pages
Search Components - Search Components provide core functionality to a Request Handler.
Query Syntax - syntax for default query parsing, and how to specify a Query Parser.
Function Queries - Using the values in fields in functions and as factors in scoring
Faceted search - Category counts for search results
(Geo)Spatial Search - Find results near a point
Field Collapsing / Result Grouping - documents with a common field value are grouped
Join - Do joins (similar to database) on documents
Tips, Tricks and Use Cases
FilterQueryGuidance - How do I partition my query in main query and filter query in order to have Solr's caching work efficiently?
Auto-complete - use either Faceting with facet.prefix or Suggester or TermsComponent
UniqueKey - Covers tips about unique keys in the schema
Japanese Language Support - How to search Japanese text, best practices and various considerations
Using PreAnalyzedField type for integration with external document processing pipelines
Solr Clients
IntegratingSolr - includes information about accessing Solr from a variety of programming languages and existing third party applications.
Operations and Production
- Index Replication
Built in SolrRequestHandler based SolrReplication
Unix script based CollectionDistribution
User-contributed content
Translations - Unofficial translations of the official documentation, in hope of easing the review process.
:TODO:
How to implement basic indexing in Tomcat
How to edit this Wiki
This Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:
- Create an account by clicking the "Login" link at the top of any page, and picking a username and password.
Edit any page by pressing Edit at the top or the bottom of the page
There are some conventions used on the Solr wiki:
:TODO:
(/!\ :TODO: /!\ ) is used to denote sections that definitely need to be cleaned up.
Solr4.0 (<!> [[Solr4.0]]) is used to draw attention to which version of Solr a feature was (or will be) added to Solr.
Some general info on using this Wiki Software:
Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with ["quoted words in brackets"]
See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.
HelpOnMoinWikiSyntax: quick access to wiki syntax