Meet Solr For The Tirst Again
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Anyone who has tried integrating search in their application knows how good and powerful Solr is but always wished it was simpler to get started and simpler to take it to production. I will talk about the recent features added to Solr making it easier for users and some of the changes we plan on adding soon to make the experience even better.
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- 1. Meet Solr for the first time again Varun Thacker
- 2. Apache Solr has a huge install base and tremendous momentum Solr is both established & growing 250,000+ most widely used search solution on the planet. 8M+ total downloads monthly downloads You use Solr everyday. Solr has tens of thousands of applications in production. 2500+ open Solr jobs. Activity Summary 30 Day summary Aug 18 - Sep 17 2014 • 128 Commits • 18 Contributors 12 Month Summary Sep 17, 2013 - Sep 17, 2014 • 1351 Commits • 29 Contributors via https://www.openhub.net/p/solr
- 3. Search - Until recently • Large organizations (Enterprise) • Expensive • Complex • $$$$$
- 4. New Age Search • Everyone… startups, websites • Special use cases • E-commerce • Mails and personal data • Personal data - Across devices • Social and Local! • Analytics
- 5. Decision making! • Short time frame • Confidence measure: • Getting started quick • Configure and see the tip of the iceberg • Issues only uncover later in the story
- 6. Until recently… • Getting started: • Download • java -jar start.jar • SolrCloud, getting started…. • Download • Copy example directory ‘x’ times over. • java -Dbootstrap_confdir=./solr/collection1/conf - Dcollection.configName=myconf -DzkRun -DnumShards=2 -jar start.jar • java -Djetty.port=7574 -DzkHost=localhost:9983 -jar start.jar • It runs!
- 7. Times… they are a changin… • Download • cd solr • Standalone: bin/solr start • SolrCloud, example, interactive: • bin/solr start -e cloud (< 2 minutes!)
- 8. Let’s index some data • Flexible JSON Indexing - Solr supports any JSON document and the document can be indexed in the required format in Solr • More reading: https://lucidworks.com/blog/ indexing-custom-json-data/
- 9. Managed Schema • Solr is the schema owner • REST APIs - Hide the implementation details • Schema-less mode • Update and Addition of Fields and FieldTypes • More reading: https://lucidworks.com/blog/ schemaless-solr-part-1/
- 10. Configuration APIs • Configure Solr using APIs • solrconfig.xml… What did you say?
- 11. Solr Scale Toolkit • Easily deploy SolrCloud clusters • Live patching and rolling restarts • Dependency on AWS soon to go away • Chef or Puppet still are valid approaches • More reading: http://lucidworks.com/blog/ introducing-the-solr-scale-toolkit/
- 12. Talking about the Admin UI… • Already improved from 3.x • Uploading documents • Collections API is coming soon Collection Actions
- 13. Recently Added Features • Document expiration and Time To Live (TTL) • Cursors: Efficient Deep Paging • Export Sorted Result Sets • SSL support in SolrCloud • Distributed Pivot Faceting • Suggester v2 • CollapsingQParserPlugin • ReRankingQParserPlugin • Collections API improvements
- 14. There’s so much more coming up… • Schema Bulk API • Distributed IDF • Query DSL • Cross Data-center replication • Cluster Backup and Restore • SOLR - Make an application, not ‘war’.
- 15. It’s easy.. and stable! • Benchmarking • Tons of users testing it • Evolving test framework
- 16. Solr scalability is unmatched. • 10TB+ Index Size • 10 Billion+ Documents • 100 Million+ Daily Requests
- 17. Where is it headed? • Download • See that server directory? • Use start scripts • Send a document, or a few… • Things don’t really look the way they should? • Use the schema APIs • Add fields… not enough? • Add field types and then add fields • Configure Solr using REST APIs For Production: • Use Solr Scale Toolkit to deploy, patch and manage! • Configure Solr using REST APIs
- 18. Lucidworks Fusion Intelligent Search Services/API Recommendation Module Signal Processing Analytics Service Enrichment Analytics Store ⚒ Services Discovery Engine Analyst Workbench eCommerce Solution Admin/ Management SiLK Log Analysis Search/ Discovery Partner Solutions Connector Framework
- 19. Connect @ https://twitter.com/varunthacker http://in.linkedin.com/in/varunthacker varun.thacker@lucidworks.com