ApacheCon US 2009

Apache Solr is an HTTP-based enterprise search server, built on top of the Lucene Java search library. In this session, we will see how quick and easy it can be to install Solr, and configure it to provide full-text searching of structured data. There's no need to write any custom code for this! We will cover various built-in features including data loading from CSV files, tolerant parsing of user input, faceted searching, highlighting matched text in results, and retrieving search results in a variety of formats (XML, JSON, etc....). We will also look at Solr's Administrative interface during the session. This interface can help us understand how different text analysis configuration options affect our results, and why various results score the way they do against different searches. No previous Solr experience is expected.