For E commerce Search

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E-Commerce
Search
using
Apache Solr
By:
TechnoTrium
info@technotrium.com

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What will you learn
 Characteristics of E-Commerce Search
 Solr: History
 Solr: A Brief
 Why Solr
 Solr System
 Features of Solr
 Users
 Resources

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E-Commerce Search is Special
Fast

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E-Commerce Search is Special
Powerful

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E-Commerce Search is Special
Scalable

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E-Commerce Search is Special
Flexible

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Solr: History
 Developed at CNET Networks by Yonik
Seeley
 Donated to ASF (Apache Software
Foundation) in early 2006
 First public release in January 2007 (v 1.2)
 Now maintained as a sub-project of Lucene.

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Solr: A Brief
 Environment not a problem.
 100% Java
 Open Source
 Runs as a standalone full-text search server
within any servlet container
 Uses Lucene Java search library as its core
 Support most languages
 Apache 2.0 license - commercially friendly

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Solr: Fast
Fast at all time.
 Indexing
 CRUD Operations
 Searching

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Solr: Fast
Total Records:
3,00,000+

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Solr: Powerful
 Indexes Data from
 Database (DIH)
 Binary Files (Apache Tika)
 Dynamic Clustering
 REST-like HTTP/XML, JSON APIs (so, you
can code virtually in any language)
 Admin tools
 Powerful Text Analysis and Tokenization

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Solr: Powerful
APIs
 HTTP GET/POST (curl or any other HTTP client)
 JSON – AjaxSolr
 Java - SolrJ (embedded or HTTP)
 Ruby – rSolr
 .NET - SolrNet, SolrSharp
More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr

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Solr: Scalable
 Multi – Core
 Index Replication
 Distributed Search
(Sharding)

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Solr: Flexible
 Supports most languages
 Fully customizable
 Schema
 Dynamic fields
 Handler Mappings
 Plug-ins
 Settings like Caching & Warming Listeners
 Query Parser (Default Lucene or EDisMax)
 Boosting
 More control? Download the source code and
change the world.

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Solar System
DIHBinary Files
SOLR
Lucene
Indexing
Web App
Query Results

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Features: Powerful Full Text Search
/select?q=3s lipo

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Features: Autocomplete
/suggest?q=hel
/suggest?q=traxxa hel

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Features: Highlighting
&hl=true&hl.fl=Title

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Features: Spellchecking
Did you mean…?
 Dictionary
Based
 Index Based
Index based spell check on whichhobbystore.com
/spell?q=hubsn

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Features: Faceting
Faceted Browsing or Guided Navigation
Location = Parents,
Children
Location = Sets it
belongs to
Hierarchy Faceting

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Features: Faceting
&facet=on&facet.field=CategoryTrail

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Features: Faceting

24. Features: Faceting

25. Features: Faceting

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Features: …and more
 Phonetic Search
 More Like This (MLT)
 Tag Clouds
 Geo-spatial search
…..and even more

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Who uses it?
More at: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers

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Interested?
Read more at:
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
http://wiki.apache.org/solr
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/features.html