Solr 101

Learn the basics of Solr (pronounced "solar"), an open source enterprise search platform, written in Java, from the Apache Lucene project.Solr is a standalone full-text search server that uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it usable from most popular programming languages.

• Learn about Solr's major features, including full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.
• Learn how Solr is highly scalable and fault tolerant in providing distributed search and index replication.
• Learn why Solr is the most popular enterprise search engine.

• Module 1 - Search Engines
  1. Understand the importance of text search engines
  2. Understand the Solr search procedure
  3. Identify Solr components

• Module 2 - Configure and Add Documents to Solr
  1. Identifying the important files in a Solr installation
  2. Define the schema for documents in the index
  3. Understand the various ways to add documents to Solr

• Module 3 - Analyzers and Queries
  1. Use analyzers, tokenizers, and filters
  2. Construct queries

• Module 4 - SolrJ and Customization
  1. Create SolrJ applications
  2. Understand the customization options available in Solr