Solr Cookbook - Third Edition

Solve real-time problems related to Apache Solr 4.x and 5.0 effectively with the help of over 100 easy-to-follow recipes

About This Book

• Solve performance, setup, configuration, analysis, and querying problems in no time
• Learn to efficiently utilize faceting and grouping
• Explore real-life examples of Apache Solr and how to deal with any issues that might arise using this practical guide

Who This Book Is For

This book is for intermediate Solr Developers who are willing to learn and implement Pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions. This edition will specifically appeal to developers who wish to quickly get to grips with the changes and new features of Apache Solr 5.

What You Will Learn

• Acquire the skills needed to index your data in different formats, forms, and sources
• Overcome common problems while analyzing your data
• Use the faceting mechanism to get aggregated information about your data
• Improve your Solr instance and Solr cluster performance
• Get to know how to configure and use SolrCloud
• Make use of the highlighting and document grouping functionalities
• Diagnose and resolve problems with Solr instances and clusters
• Implement different autocomplete functionalities

In Detail

Starting with vital information on setting up Solr, you will quickly progress to analyzing your text data through querying and performance improvement.

With the help of intermediate and advanced recipes, you will learn how to index data and query Solr. Then, you will deep dive into faceting and learn how to improve Solr's performance. You will also work with SolrCloud clusters and will get to grips with the advanced functionalities of Solr. Finally, you will explore real-life situations, where Solr can be used to simplify daily collection handling. By the end of this book, you will be able to produce enhanced, optimized, and powerful results by implementing pro-level practices and techniques.

Rafal Kuc

Rafal Kuc is a born team leader and software developer. He currently works as a consultant and software engineer at Sematext Group, Inc., where he concentrates on open source technologies such as Apache Lucene and Solr, Elasticsearch, and Hadoop stack. He has more than 14 years of experience in various software branches―from banking software to e-commerce products. He focuses mainly on Java but is open to every tool and programming language that will make the achievement of his goal easier and faster. Rafal is also one of the founders of the solr.pl site, where he tries to share his knowledge and help people with the problems they face with Solr and Lucene. He is also a speaker at various conferences around the world, such as Lucene Eurocon, Berlin Buzzwords, ApacheCon, Lucene Revolution, and DevOps Days. Rafal began his journey with Lucene in 2002, and it wasn't love at first sight. When he came back to Lucene in late 2003, he revised his thoughts about the framework and saw the potential in search technologies. Then, Solr came along and that was it. He started working with Elasticsearch in the middle of 2010. Currently, Lucene, Solr, Elasticsearch, and information retrieval are his main points of interest. Rafal is also the author of Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook, and the update to it, Apache Solr 4.0 Cookbook, both published by Packt Publishing. He also authored Elasticsearch-related books, ElasticSearch Server and its second edition, and the first and second editions of Mastering ElasticSearch, all published by Packt Publishing. This book is a second update to the first book I ever wrote― Apache Solr 3.1 Cookbook, Packt Publishing. Again, similar to Apache Solr Cookbook 4.0, Packt Publishing, what meant to be an update turned out to be almost a complete rewrite because of the pending release of Solr 5.0 and the changes to Solr itself. Between Solr 4.0 and 5.0, there were a lot of changes and additions to Solr, and I know I didn't manage to gather them all in the recipes that are present in the book you are holding. However, I hope that if you are either using Solr 4.x or Solr 5.0, this book will help you overcome some common problems and will push your knowledge about Solr a bit further.