Hello, Everyone! Today we are here with another post to further our discussion about basic indexing operations in solr. Solr provides a rich mechanism by which it can absorb documents of varied types such as PDF, word etc. The way it does that is by using Apache Tika Parser. Uploading Data with Solr Cell using…
All About Indexing and Basic Data Operations – Part 2 – Ultimate Solr Guide
Hello Everyone! Today we are here with another post furthering our discussion about basic indexing operations in solr. The most commonly used form of data representation is JSON and XML. Today we will discuss how to handle indexing of custom JSON objects in solr. In order to do this, we use certain tags telling solr’s…
All About Indexing and Basic Data Operations – Part 1- Ultimate Solr Guide
Hello Everyone! Today I would like to discuss a very important aspect about Apache Solr. To perform any basic search operation, we need an index. The index of apache solr rests in terms of a document which is basically a set of fields having certain values. Hence, indexing operation in solr becomes very crucial in…
Solr Client API’s – Ultimate Solr Guide
Hello Everyone! Today we will discuss another important aspect in solr which is widely used in enterprise-grade applications harnessing the power of solr. In most scenarios, we need to interact with data types of different types and from different sources. Solr provides with multiple client Api’s to deal with this type of scenario and do…
Securing Solr – Ultimate Solr Guide
Hello Everyone! We are back with another interesting post on Solr. One of the crucial requirements while setting up a solr application is to provide selective access to various resources allocated on the solr instance. Put simply, we need a mechanism to handle who logs in to the server and no unintended party gets access…
Understanding Solr Cloud – Ultimate Solr Guide
Hello everyone! We are back with another post. For any enterprise-grade application, it’s very important to have fault tolerance and high availability. In many ways, it holds the key to market perception and customer satisfaction. In essence, Apache Solr includes the ability to set up a cluster of Solr servers that combines fault tolerance and…
Importing data with Data Import Handler – Ultimate Solr Guide
Introduction Hello everyone! We are back with another post. Today we will discuss in detail another important aspect used in many enterprise-grade applications. All organizations big and small in evidently store data some form of structured data store. Data import handler provides a mechanism for importing content of that datastore and indexing it. In addition…
Re-platform search from Endeca to Solr – Ultimate Solr Guide
Hello everyone! We are back with another post. This time we will discuss in detail an important aspect affecting a large number of enterprise applications. Let’s face it, in today’s fast-changing world, if an organization doesn’t keep abreast with the much-needed changes in their core systems, it is quickly forgotten and it tends to lose…
mm (minimum match) parameter in DisMax Query Parser – Ultimate Solr Guide
Hi folks! We are back with another post. Today we will discuss in detail an important aspect of solr which is being used by a large number of enterprise applications. In most applications, there is a need to return a response to every query thrown at the solr engine within some workable contextual bounds. In…
