SolrResources

Solr Resources

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.

Mailing List Archives

Several third parties provide excellent interfaces for seraching/browsing the Solr mailing list archives...

• Main Apache Archive: solr-user solr-dev

• mail-archive.com: solr-user solr-dev

• Nabble: solr-user solr-dev

• MarkMail.org: solr-user solr-dev

Tutorials

• Solr Introductory Tutorial

• My Solr - Setting up your first real Solr instance

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":

  1. Essential features and the Solr schema (2007-05-29)

  2. 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)

Presentations

• Slides from Yonik's Solr presentation at ApacheCon EU 2006

• 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 2007

• Introduction to Solr by Tom Hill at eBig Java SIG, June 2008

Media (podcasts, etc)

• Erik Hatcher discusses Solr on an episoode of WebDevRadio here http://www.webdevradio.com/index.php?id=47 (2007-04-10)

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)

IRC

• #solr on irc.freenode.net - the Solr community water cooler

More links

• del.icio.us users, please 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

Books

Maybe Someday...in the meantime, reading about Lucene can help a lot, as it's what makes Solr tick.

• Lucene in Action, by Erik Hatcher and Otis Gospodnetić