This is a collection of resources that talk about Solr, or provide case studies of using Solr. People should feel free to add any publicly available information they find about Solr.
Contents
Articles
Solr: Indexing XML with Lucene and REST at XML.com (2006-08-09)
SOLR, What and Why? at "Big Tech on a Small Buget"
An open source endeca? Solr, patacriticism and faceted browsing at biblio.org (2006-05-25)
Two part series on Solr at IBM developerWorks titled "Search smarter with Apache Solr":
Essential features and the Solr schema (2007-05-29)
Solr for the enterprise (2007-06-05)
Solr in Libraries A round-up of experimental library catalog projects using Solr from Ryan Eby, (2007-04-26)
Enterprise search with PHP and Apache Solr at IBM developerWorks (2008-01-15)
What's new with Apache Solr - Coverage of new features and capabilities in Solr 1.3 by Grant Ingersoll. (2008-11-04)
Faceted Search with Solr (by Yonik Seeley)
(Published: January 2009 - article)Content Extraction with Apache Tika and Solr (by Sami Siren)
(Published: January 2009 - article)Optimizing Findability in Lucene and Solr (by Grant Ingersoll)
(Published: January 2009 - article)Debugging Relevance Issues in Search (by Grant Ingersoll)
(Published: January 2009 - article)Scaling Lucene and Solr (by Mark Miller)
(Published: January 2009 - article)Introduction to Apache Lucene and Solr (by Marc Krellenstein)
(Published: January 2009 - article)Solr Auto-Suggest using TermsComponent and JQuery (by Matt Weber)
(Published: May 2009 - article)
Blogs
Grant's Grunts: Lucene edition - Grant Ingersoll's thoughts on the Lucene ecosystem.
Lucid Imagination's Blog - Many of the Solr and Lucene committers blog here about how to use Solr and Lucene
Books
Books Specifically About Solr...
Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server by David Smiley and Eric Pugh. The first comprehensive resource guide on Solr, written and tested for the 1.4 version. Essential reading for developers, this book covers nearly every feature with a tutorial approach and realistic examples.
Other Useful books on Lucene, Text Processing, Search algorithms, etc...
Lucene in Action, by Erik Hatcher and Otis Gospodnetić
Taming Text, by Grant Ingersoll and Tom Morton. Chapter on search (using Solr) and also presents "text taming" tools (clustering, Named Entity Recognition, etc.) in the context of Solr.
IRC
- #solr on irc.freenode.net - the Solr community water cooler
Mailing List Archives
Several third parties provide excellent interfaces for seraching/browsing the Solr mailing list archives...
http://www.lucidimagination.com/search - Search the Lucene/Solr ecosystem. Powered by Solr.
Media (podcasts, etc)
Interview with Lucene creator Doug Cutting Podcast. Summary: Doug talks about the creation of Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop. (Published January 2009)
Interview with Lucene/Solr committer Chris Hostetter Podcast. Summary: Chris talks about Solr, Lucene and their usage at CNET. (Published January 2009)
Interview with Lucene/Solr committer Ryan McKinley Podcast. Summary: Ryan discusses Solr, Lucene and geospatial searching with Lucene (LocalLucene/LocalSolr) and his usage of Lucene/Solr throughout his career. (Published January 2009)
Erik Hatcher discusses Solr on an episode of WebDevRadio here http://www.webdevradio.com/index.php?id=47 (2007-04-10)
More links
del.icio.us users, please use the "solr" tag so that links can be found at http://del.icio.us/tag/solr
Simpy users, use "solr" tag, so that pages about Solr can be found at http://www.simpy.com/links/tag/solr
Presentations
Subversion and Solr (and Cocoon), your next content repository? Bertrand Delacretaz's presentation at the Cocoon GetTogether 2006
Slides from Hoss's Faceted Searching presentation at ApacheCon US 2006
Solr on Rails by Erik Hatcher at RailsConf 2007
Beyond full-text searches with Lucene and Solr by Bertrand Delacrétaz at ApacheCon EU 2007
Painless Full Text Search with SOLR by Michael Kimsal at OSCON US 2007
Apache Solr: Out Of The Box by Hoss at ApacheCon US 2008
Introduction to Solr by Tom Hill at eBig Java SIG, June 2008
Apache Solr: Beyond The Box by Hoss at ApacheCon US 2008
Tip & Tricks
Posting XML (to Solr) from ant by Peter Binkley (2007-02-01)
Online indexing - integrating Nutch with Solr by Sami Siren (2007-02-04)
Training
http://www.lucidimagination.com/How-We-Can-Help/Training/ - Training on Solr created by Solr committers and contributors (Erik Hatcher, Grant Ingersoll and the rest of the team at Lucid Imagination).
Solr Boot Camp - Training on Solr by Solr/Lucene committers and contributors. Offered exclusively at ApacheCon.