Apachesolr presentation
- 1. Apache SOLR Freeform Advance - Speedgeek
- 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