Sitecore User Group Bangalore webinar on Sitecore Search Absolute Basics by Gopikrishna Gujjula from Verndale on 23rd Sept 2017.

1. Gopikrishna Gujjula
Sitecore Certified Developer
Senior Engineer @Verndale
gopikreddy.gn@gmail.com
@gopigujjula
www.gopigujjula.com
Sitecore Search:
Absolute Basics

2. Agenda
• Why Search?
• DB Search
• Index Basics
• About Lucene & Solr
• Demo

3. Why Search?

4. DB Search

5. The fundamental premise of Search Engine is simple. You give it a lot
of information, then later you can ask it questions and find the
piece of information you want. The part where you feed in all the
information is called indexing or updating. When you ask a question,
it’s called a query.
Search Engine

6. Index
Field
Document

7. Inverted Index
https://goo.gl/UN5Xtq

8. Text Analysis
http://www.bigwisdom.net/solr-tutorial-learn-solr-in-2-hours/

9. • Lucene is a powerful Search library that lets you easily add full text search to
applications.
• Doug Cutting (also creator of Hadoop) originally wrote Lucene in 1999.
• Cross platform solution.
• Fast and efficient search algorithms.
Lucene

10. • Solr is the popular, blazing-fast, open source enterprise search platform built
on Apache Lucene.
• Highly scalable and fault-tolerant.
• RESTful API over HTTP.
• Easy configuration.
• Comprehensive admin interface.
• Support distributed indexing (SolrCloud), Replication, and load balanced
querying.
Solr

11. Sitecore + Search

13. • https://medium.com/@MentorMate/elasticsearch-how-to-add-full-text-search-
to-your-database-ee2f3ea4d3f3
• https://www.amazon.in/Apache-Solr-Practical-Approach-
Enterprise/dp/1484210719
• https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/using-the-solr-administration-user-
interface.html
• http://www.bigwisdom.net/solr-tutorial-learn-solr-in-2-hours/
• https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/80/setting_up_and_mai
ntaining/search_and_indexing/walkthrough_setting_up_solr
References