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.
Books
Books Specifically About Solr...
- Apache Solr: A Practical Approach to Enterprise Search - by Dikshant Shahi. It covers topics on text-analysis, indexing, searching and scoring in-depth. It also provides learning on integrating semantic capabilities, published by Apress LLC.
- Solr in Action - by Trey Grainger and Timothy Potter. A comprehensive (638 pg.), example-driven guide through Solr 4.7, published by Manning Publications.
- Instant Apache Solr for Indexing Data How-to - by Alexandre Rafalovitch. Covers introductory and intermediate indexing topics for Solr 4.
- Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server by David Smiley and Eric Pugh. This is the 2nd edition of the first book, published by Packt. Essential reading for developers, this book covers nearly every feature up thru Solr 3.4.
- Solr 3.1 Cookbook - by Rafał Kuć (Errata)
- Solr 4.0 Cookbook - by Rafał Kuć (Errata)
- Introduction to Apache Solr (in Japanese) by Koji Sekiguchi, Jun Otani, Yasuo Sanbe, Kouhei Takeda and Takeshi Nakano. This book is an essential guide for Japanese speaking new Solr users.
- 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.
Other Useful books on Lucene, Text Processing, Search algorithms, etc...
Product Sheets
Articles
Blogs
IRC
- #solr on irc.freenode.net - the Solr community water cooler (web access)
Mailing List Archives
Several third parties provide excellent interfaces for searching/browsing the Solr mailing list archives. Please consider the tips on UsingMailingLists before posting.
Media (video, podcasts, etc)
- Solr & Spark for Real-Time Big Data Analytics
Recorded Webinar: Lucene/Solr Committer Tim Potter presents common use cases for integrating Spark and Solr, access to open source code, and performance metrics to help you develop your own large-scale search and discovery solution with Spark and Solr. (Published: September 2015) - Simpler Semantic Search with Solr
Recorded Webinar: Hear from Lucidworks Senior Solutions Consultant Ted Sullivan about how to improve the quality of search results by examining the relationship between language and search. (Published: June 2015) - Inside Apache Solr 5
Recorded Webinar: Join Lucidworks CTO and Apache Solr committer Grant Ingersoll for a guided tour of the latest release of Solr. You'll learn about SolrCloud hardening, clusterstate improvements, the schema and solrconfig APIs, easier ZooKeeper management, improved flexible and schemaless indexing, and overall ease-of-use improvements. (Published: February 2015) - Erik Hatcher discusses Solr on an episode of WebDevRadio here http://www.webdevradio.com/index.php?id=47 (2007-04-10)
Presentations
Products Built On Solr
- Lucidworks Fusion - Use Lucidworks Fusion to make your Solr development and maintenance easy.
- 3RDi - provides solutions for Content Discovery, Semantic Enrichment, Governance, Analytics, Relevancy Management and Automated Testing.
Tip & Tricks
Training
Tutorials