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How Solr Search Works
The document discusses the workings of Solr search, including its architecture, indexing, and comparison with SQL and NoSQL databases. It highlights various search requirements, advantages of Solr, and features like faceting, fuzzy matching, and scalability. Additionally, it covers how Solr is used in applications and compares it to other search technologies like Google Search and Elasticsearch.
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Introduction to SOLR and its agenda covering search definition, requirements, and comparisons.
Key aspects of search including text search, filters, sorting, facets, stemming, and fuzzy matching.
Explains traditional search stored in SQL and NoSQL databases with their features and limitations.
Highlights SOLR's advantages over SQL/NoSQL focusing on indexing, text analysis, faceting, and performance.
Detailed breakdown of SOLR architecture covering indexing, searching, updating indexes, scalability, and additional features like NLP.
Application of SOLR in Trellis including architecture, data sources, and search functionalities.
Overview of Google’s search mechanisms and comparison with other search technologies like ElasticSearch.
Wrap-up of the presentation with references and resources for further learning about SOLR.
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- 1. How SOLR SearchWorks Rajat Jain - 20th Dec, 2016
- 2. Agenda • What doyou mean by Search? • Search Requirements • Comparison of SOLR with SQL/NoSQL • SOLR Architecture • SOLR Usage in Trellis • How Google Search Works • Other Search Technologies
- 3. What do youmean by Search?
- 4. What do youmean by Search?
- 5. What do youmean by Search?
- 6. Search Requirements • TextSearch – eg. “Architects” • Filters – eg. “In New Delhi”, “iOS” • Sorting – eg. “Best Match”, “Highest Rating”, etc. • And More.. • Facets • Stemming • Fuzzy Matching • Image Search, etc.
- 7. Search Requirements • FullText Search • Fast reads (writes can be slower) • Various Combinations of Filters • Various Combinations of Sorting • Non Features: • Real-time – usually staleness is not a problem • Data Integrity – usually not a source of storage – can be ‘lossy’
- 8. Search Requirements –Faceted Search • A Type of Filtering with suggestions • In most cases – sorted by number • Basically helps the user to narrow down the search without having to ‘guess’ how to narrow it
- 9. Conventional Storage forSearch • SQL (MySQL) • Relational Tables • Normalized Data • Assuming using Keys / Indexes for reads & writes • Optimized for reads and writes & transactional data (acid transactions) • Lots of security, etc. • Table Data stored in File System • Indexing - Individual columns – set of columns • Full Text search – recent addition (full text index)
- 10. Conventional Storage forSearch • No SQL (think MongoDB) • Key Value Pairs • De-normalized Data • Unstructured Data • Optimized for Reads – writes can be slightly slower (in case of transactional) • Data stored in File System • Indexing – individual fields • Full Text Search – has in-built support
- 11. Advantages of SOLRover MySQL/NoSQL • Reversed Index • Mind-blowing Text-analysis / stemming / scoring / fuzziness • Weighting fields / boosting – custom scoring functions • Single document concept – no relations (in general) • Faceting support out-of-the box • Optimized for search and search alone (at scale without performance drop)
- 12. SOLR Architecture –Indexing • Take a ‘document’ / field, etc. • For each field apply set of filters / tokenizers • Convert to individual tokens • Update the ‘inverted’ index based on the tokens • In general in the Index keep track of stats, etc. for the various terms • Different indexes per field
- 13. SOLR Architecture -Indexing 13 XML Update Handler CSV Update Handler /update /update/csv XML Update with custom processor chain /update/xml Extracting RequestHandler (PDF, Word, …) /update/extract Lucene Index Data Import Handler Database pull RSS pull Simple transforms SQL DB RSS feed <doc> <title> Remove Duplicates processor Logging processor Index processor Custom Transform processor PDF HTTP POST HTTP POST pull pull Update Processor Chain (per handler) Lucene Text Index Analyzers
- 14. SOLR Architecture –Searching • User enters query • Parse the query, i.e. apply the required filters and tokenizers • Converted to tokens • Parallel search across multiple indexes (per field) • Score all the documents • Sort in async fashion
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- 16. SOLR Architecture –Updating Index • Types of Index Updates • Instant Index • Incremental Indexing • Full Indexing • Index Update Strategies • Instant / Incremental Index cannot happen continuously • Too much causes performance degradation • Full Index periodically to optimize the index
- 17. SOLR Architecture –Scalability • Sharding • Splitting collections across servers – search in parallel • Replication • More than one copy of the data for failover • SolrCloud • Using Zookeeper for managing clusters
- 18. SOLR Architecture –Other Features • Stemming • Identify root word and variations of the word, eg. "stems", "stemmer", "stemming", "stemmed" as based on "stem" • Fuzzy Matching • Similar Words / Misspellings • Edit Distance • NLP • Identify Entities / Nouns in Search Query • OpenNLP Plugin for SOLR • And much more…
- 19. SOLR Usage inTrellis • Architecture • Data-in from MySQL • Index Update Strategy • AutoComplete • Basic Search • Advanced Search • Filters / Sorting / Facets & More • Demo (Incl. Config Files)
- 20. How Google SearchWorks • Crawling • Robots.txt • Indexing • Multiple Indexes – Instant / Daily / Weekly / Long Tail • Searching • NLP, Stemming, Auto-correct, etc. • Ranking – PageRank • Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs
- 21. Other Search Technologies •ElasticSearch • Much newer than Solr • Built-in scalability • Uses same Lucene as the base • JSON instead of XML • Good for Analytical querying • Others • Splunk • Sphinx
- 22. That’s All Folks References •SOLR Home Page - http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ • Tutorials • http://www.solrtutorial.com/index.h tml • https://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_10 _0/tutorial.html • Just Google the rest!!