Apache Solr for TYPO3 at TYPO3 Usergroup Day Netherlands

Apache Solr & TYPO3 Ingo Renner TYPO3 Core Developer, Release Manager TYPO3 4.2

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Indexed Search

Indexed Search • Indexing Frontend / Crawler • Respects access rights • Respects languages • Index in Database • Totally OK for smaller websites Slo ooooooooo ooowww

Apache Solr

So what is Apache Solr? • Enterprise Search Server • Based on Lucene Index • Apache Software Foundation Project • Many powerful features • CNet, Netﬂix, ilocal.nl, Zappos.com

Solr Concepts • Index = Collection of Documents • Document = Data stored in Fields • Field Type deﬁnes processing through Analizers, Tokenizers, Filters • Dynamic Fields bi li ty • Copy Fields l ex i F

Why Apache Solr? • Speed: Many times faster than IS • Better search results • Faceted search • Spellchecker: Did you mean ... ? • Similarity search: More like this ... • & Editorial Content / paid search results ed pe • Synonyms, Stopwords S r e • Boosting of speciﬁc index ﬁelds • P Replication, distributed search o w

How it works • REST like interface • Indexing of XML Documents through HTTP POST • Querying through HTTP GET • Results as XML, JSON, PHP AP I E a sy

Disadvantages • Needs Java rs • We donʻt want to deal with Java Solr shields us from Java once e • e lo p set-up D e v P H P w i th s ta y

Advantages • Multiple times faster than IS • NO database queries • Easy installation / Conﬁguration • Respects access rights • Respects languages • se erful t y to u w Cutomizability as as F E P o

EXT:solr +

Current Status • „Acts like Indexed Search“ • Indexing through Frontend / Crawler • Search • Search Word Highlighting • Sorting • Spellchecker: Did you mean ... ? • Similarity Search: More like this ... • Faceted Search • Suggest / Autocompletion

Outlook • Backend Modul • API, indexing through BE • Related Searches • Last Searches • Smart Reranking through user usage • Editorial Search Results • Editing of Stopwords, Synonyms

Development Model • Private ﬁnancing of new features • Financing partners get Early Access and Support • Minimum stake of 5 man days • v2.0 end of Q2 next year • Development as Community Project in parrallel

Community Edition • Released v1.0 on TER • Project on TYPO3 Forge • Open Development • Only few differences compared to „our“ version

Showcases

Making the sun shine on your search

Requirements, Setup • Requires any J2EE container: Tomcat, Jetty, Resin, ... • Run setup scripts provided with EXT:solr • Copy provided configuration files to Solr • config.index_enable = 1

Customization • Indexing of additional Data through hooks, interfaces, TS conﬁguration • Individual index schema • En/Disable features through TS • Individual, ﬂexible rendering of results

More than Solr

Projects around Solr • Lucene - Search Index Library • Tika - Content Extraction from Files • Nutch - Crawl External Sites

Thanks for listening.

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Apache Solr for TYPO3 at TYPO3 Usergroup Day Netherlands

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