Allopneus presents together with France Labs its search engine project, based on Solr, for its eCommerce website. It includes information on the functionnalities, the project setup and the statu quo.

1. The Apache Solr search engine
at Allopneus
CEDRIC ULMER, PRESIDENT - FRANCE LABS
SEBASTIEN BARTHELEMY, CTO - ALLOPNEUS
LIB’DAY, MARSEILLE, OCTOBER 2014

2. Agenda
Allopneus
• Business
• Desired functionalities
• Technical requirements
Apache Solr: Why and how ?
• Why
• How
• Project execution
Allopneus: next steps

3. France Labs – Our activities
Training Consulting
Installation
Software maker

4. France Labs – Notre présence
European customers, LTE as well as SMBs and startups.
Active participation to the Open Source and Search ecosystem
• Locale : Open source group at Telecom Valley, Tech Confs, RE:Conf
• National : Organizing Enterprise Search Meetup in Paris, talking at Search Day
• International: Talking at Enterprise Search Europe.
Datafari – our packaged search solution – is available as open source, under Apache
license

5. Search and eCommerce
27 % visitors of an eCommerce site are starting their visits using the internal search
engine.
73 % visitors of an eCommerce site are leaving after 2 minutes if they don’t find what
they are looking for.
96 % visitors say that search is an important functionality in their buying process.
Source: Marketing Sherpa

6. Allopneus – The pros for tires
Company 100% French, founded in Dec. 2004 by Didier BLAISE.
Approx. 180 employees, HQ in Aix-en-Provence and a 41.000 m2 warehouse in Oignies.
French leader for sales and and mounting of tires on the web, with more than 50%
market share.

7. Allopneus – A few figures
15 millions pages displayed / month
1,5 millions unique visitors / month
Revenue > 200 millions € in 2013
Approx. 600.000 tires in the warehouse

8. Allopneus –Search in the “wheel rim” universe
Approx. 30.000 products in the catalog
Approx. 5 millions connections wheel rims/vehicles
Approx. 10 millions associations tire dimensions / connections
Search index about 2 GB
Near real time updates (modifications price/availability)
Duration of complete indexing: 30 min for wheel rims, 2h30min for tires
Time to take into account a new product: < 20 min
Current number of shards: 3 shards with tripe replications on 3 machines
Average response time per query: < 10ms

9. Allopneus – Search functionalities
Products search
Products faceting
Products pagination / sort
Full text search (not released yet)
Auto-completion (not released yet)
Spellchecker (not released yet)
Suggestion engine (not released yet)

10. Allopneus – Products search

11. Allopneus – Products Faceting

12. Apache Solr – The reference open source search engine

13. Apache Solr – The reference open source search engine
Property of the Apache foundation
Layer on top of the Lucene search java API
Easy-to-use horizontal scalability (clustering)
Compatible with Hadoop (default search engine in Hadoop distros)
Highly configurable
Schemaless
REST APIs

14. Apache Solr – Aucompletion illustration

15. Apache Solr – Spellchecker illustration

16. Apache Solr: Suggestions illustration

17. Data Sources
Search Engine
Front end
Admin UI
Indexing
Pipeline
DB1
DB2
Comments
Web
Apache Solr 4
(SolrCloud)
Allopneus – Architecture
Solarium
Node
1
Node
3

18. Search engine
Front end
Apache Solr 4 (SolrCloud)
Allopneus – Architecture – Zoom sur SolrCloud
Node 1
Shard1
Shard2
Shard3
Node 3
Shard1
Shard2
Shard3
Node 2
Shard1
Shard2
Shard3
Shard2 ShardLeader,
randomly picked
Zookeeper
Instance 1
Instance 2
Instance 3
Zookeeper
Instance 1
Instance 2
Instance 3
Indexing
pipeline
Solarium

19. Apache Solr – Project execution
“First the search engine, then the functionalities”
Migration towards SolrCloud started in July 2014
Tests in September 2014
Official release in November 2014
Navigation speed much faster that “standard sql”
Future work: full text search, autocomplete, search for categories/vehicles, suggestions, …

20. QUESTIONS ? (what does the France Labs logo represent ?!)
AVAILABLE DURING THE LIBDAY CONFERENCE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS
CEDRIC.ULMER@FRANCELABS.COM
@FRANCELABS