PLAT-4 Understanding the SOLR Integration

Understanding The SOLR Integration Andy Hind • Senior Developer • twitter @andy_hind

Agenda•  Why SOLR?•  What is supported?•  Eventual consistency•  Configuration and setup•  How to migrate•  Status/reporting•  Improvements

Why SOLR?•  Issues… o  Cluster – index per node o  Performance •  Permission evaluation •  Structural queries •  In-transaction indexing o  Scale query independently o  Cross-locale support o  Sub-system and dynamic configuration

What is supported?•  Spaces store•  Archive•  Query languages•  NOT o  WCM based on AVM o  Records Management o  All stores o  Multi-tenant o  In transaction (eventually consistent)

Eventual consistency•  SOLR is tracking Alfresco o  Following transactions – a bit like clustering o  Eventual consistency o  Transactions that may take some time to commit o  Two cores •  SpacesStore •  ArchiveStore

Eventual consistency•  Models•  ACLs•  Metadata•  Content•  Ownership•  Structure - PATH

High Level Architecture Search Requests Search Results Repository Async: Solr Index Polling Content Database Store(s) Storage Updates Models Solr Cores: ACLS Solr - Workspace Cores Properties & Content - Archive

Setup•  SOLR is a web app o  zip•  Communicates over SSL o  Generate and configure your certificates …•  Per core configuration in SOLR o  Data location•  Installer default

Configuration•  Search sub-systems o  solr, lucene o  Change configuration without restarting Alfresco•  JMX/Share admin•  Lucene o  Lots – sub-set in share•  SOLR o  Host/port/SSL•  Properties

How to migrate•  Carry on using lucene•  Configure SOLR•  Configure Alfresco o  Support SOLR tracking•  Monitor SOLR tracking•  Switch sub-systems when ready•  You can switch back to lucene o  It will check its state as it does now at start up

Stats and reporting•  JMX/Share o  Later ….•  Direct to SOLR o  https://localhost:8443/solr/admin/cores?action=SUMMARY o  https://localhost:8443/solr/admin/cores?action=REPORT•  Fix o  JMX o  https://localhost:8443/solr/admin/cores?action=FIX

Improvements•  PATH•  Access evaluation o  Query time•  Cross-language/locale support o  Query/Tokenisation o  Sorting•  SOLR o  Query caching o  Facets

Improvements …•  Cross-language o  Standard tokenisation o  Configurable o  Default – SOLR WordDelimiterFilterFactory •  BigWoof-123-A47.txt •  .txt, Big, 123A, 123a47txt, 47, A47, BigWoof123A47txt

Improvements …•  Cross-language o  Sort •  d:text –  en: peach péché pêche sin –  fr: peach pêche péché sin •  d:mltext –  Nearest match

Improvements …•  Indexing Control o  cm:indexControl o  cm:isIndexed (Boolean) •  Enable/disable All indexing (properties & content) o  cm:isContentIndexed (Boolean) •  Enable/disable Content Indexing

Improvements …•  Canned Queries o  How is share affected by eventual consistency? o  DB o  Not lucene/SOLR

Where is SOLR/Lucene used?•  Advanced Search•  Filters•  Tags (not the roll up)•  Categories (facets)•  Dashlets o  E.g. Recently Modified•  People, Groups, Sites will use DB query unless o  Start with *xyz o  Other wildcards

SOLR futures•  SOLR cloud•  SOLR/Lucene improvements o  Performance o  Future 3.4, 4.0, ...•  Geo

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