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.
- Articles
- Blogs
- Books
- IRC
- Mailing List Archives
- Media (podcasts, etc)
- More links
- Presentations
- Tip & Tricks
- Training
- Tutorials
Articles
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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
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
- 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.