Solr Cookbook - Third Edition

Rafal Kuc

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783553150
• Thema: Computer Science
• Thema: Web Development

Solr Cookbook Third Edition

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Table of Contents

Solr Cookbook Third Edition

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Getting ready

How to do it…

How it works…

There's more…

See also

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Apache Solr Configuration

Introduction

Running Solr on a standalone Jetty

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

I want Jetty to run on a different port

Buffer size is too small

Installing ZooKeeper for SolrCloud

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Migrating configuration from master-slave to SolrCloud

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Choosing the proper directory configuration

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring the Solr spellchecker

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

More than one spellchecker

Using Solr in a schemaless mode

How to do it...

How it works...

Limiting I/O usage

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using core discovery

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Configuring SolrCloud for NRT use cases

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring SolrCloud for high-indexing use cases

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring SolrCloud for high-querying use cases

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring the Solr heartbeat mechanism

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Enabling and disabling the heartbeat mechanism

Changing similarity

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Changing the global similarity

2. Indexing Your Data

Introduction

Indexing PDF files

How to do it...

How it works...

Counting the number of fields

How to do it...

How it works...

Using parsing update processors to parse data

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using scripting update processors to modify documents

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Indexing data from a database using Data Import Handler

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

How to change the default behavior of deleting index contents at the beginning of a full import

Incremental imports with DIH

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Transforming data when using DIH

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using scripts other than JavaScript

Indexing multiple geographical points

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Updating document fields

How to do it...

How it works...

Detecting the document language during indexation

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Language identification based on Apache Tika

Optimizing the primary key indexation

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling multiple currencies

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Setting up your own currency provider

3. Analyzing Your Text Data

Introduction

Using the enumeration type

How to do it...

How it works...

Removing HTML tags during indexing

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Preserving defined tags

See also

Storing data outside of Solr index

How to do it...

How it works...

Using synonyms

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Equivalent synonyms setup

See also

Stemming different languages

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using nonaggressive stemmers

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using the n-gram approach to do performant trailing wildcard searches

How to do it...

How it works...

Using position increment to divide sentences

How to do it...

How it works...

Using patterns to replace tokens

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using solr.PatternReplaceCharFilterFactory

4. Querying Solr

Introduction

Understanding and using the Lucene query language

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using position aware queries

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Too many generated queries

Using boosting with autocomplete

How to do it...

How it works...

Phrase queries with shingles

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling user queries without errors

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Handling hierarchies with nested documents

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Returning children documents in the query

Sorting data on the basis of a function value

How to do it...

How it works...

Controlling the number of terms needed to match

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Affecting document score using function queries

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Using simple nested queries

How to do it...

How it works...

Using the Solr document query join functionality

How to do it...

How it works...

Handling typos with n-grams

How to do it...

How it works...

Rescoring query results

How to do it...

How it works...

5. Faceting

Introduction

Getting the number of documents with the same field value

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

How to show facets with counts greater than zero

Lexicographical sorting of the faceting results

Getting the number of documents with the same value range

How to do it...

How it works...

Getting the number of documents matching the query and subquery

How to do it...

How it works...

Removing filters from faceting results

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Using decision tree faceting

How to do it...

How it works...

Calculating faceting for relevant documents in groups

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Improving faceting performance for low cardinality fields

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Using per segment field cache for faceting calculation

Specifying the number of faceting threads

6. Improving Solr Performance

Introduction

Handling deep paging efficiently

How to do it...

How it works...

See also

Configuring the document cache

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring the query result cache

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring the filter cache

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Improving Solr query performance after the start and commit operations

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Improving Solr performance after committing operations

Lowering the memory consumption of faceting and sorting

How to do it...

How it works...

Speeding up indexing with Solr segment merge tuning

How to do it...

How it works...

There's more...

Increasing the RAM buffer size to improve the indexing throughput

Speeding up querying with merge policy tuning

See also

Avoiding caching of rare filters to improve the performance

How to do it...

How it works...

Controlling the filter execution to improve expensive filter performance

Getting ready

How to do it...

How it works...

Configuring numerical fields for high-perfo...