1. Apache SOLR
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2. Background
• SOLR is open source
• Built on the Lucene search library
• Java-based
• REST-like XML or Json API

3. SOLR Features
• Faceted search and filtering
• Geospatial search (x,y pos)
• Spelling suggestions
• Works in multiple languages (CKJ tokenizer)
• Ideal for large data sets
• High performance, scalable
• Very customizable

4. Installation
• Latest SOLR version - 4.2.1
• Supported by Drupal modules - 3.6.2
• Make sure java installed
• Download sever
• Replace config files for module ones
• Backend: http://localhost:8983/solr/admin
• Securing! Make sure your ports are secure

5. Modules - ApacheSolr
• Apachesolr was the first module to integrate
SOLR into drupal, and has big names behind it
• Acquia sponsored
• Only supports one index
• Lots of contrib modules
• Only support SOLR 3.x

6. Modules – Search API
• Again, lots of community support and contrib
modules
• Data source is not restricted to just solr, but
support for many
• Very views-focused
• Only support for SOLR 3.x

7. SOLR – Configuring
• Setting fields
– Relevance weights - Full Text?
– Taxonomy hierarchy
• Adding filter blocks
using Facet API

8. SOLR – Config (cont.)
• HTML tags to boost (more relevance for h1)
• Stopwords (what to ignore)
• Ignore characters (a dash in-between)
• Index alt attribute
• What node types to index
• Node access