SOLR – capabilities, setup, and administration

Enable administrators to install, configure, monitor, and scale Solr search clusters—including SolrCloud—for reliable, high-performance search.

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Audience: Developers, business users, administrators

Duration: Two days (optional third day for developers)

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % lecture, 50 % lab)

Overview

This course introduces students to the Solr platform. Through a combination of lecture, discussion, and labs students will gain hands-on experience configuring effective search and indexing.

Objective

Enable administrators to install, configure, monitor, and scale Solr search clusters—including SolrCloud—for reliable, high-performance search.

What You Will Learn

Solr installation and configuration
Solr architecture and design
Faceting, indexing, and search
Advanced topics including spell checking, suggestions, Multicore, and SolrCloud.

Course Details

Audience: Developers, business users, administrators

Duration: Two days (optional third day for developers)

Format: Lectures and hands-on labs (50 % lecture, 50 % lab)

Prerequisites:

Experienced technical staff with a background in web-application operations and, preferably, development.

Setup: Amazon EC2 servers for installation, administration, and lab work • SSH client • Browser • Zero-Install (no Solr install on laptops)

Detailed Outline

Solr Overview
Installing and running Solr
Adding content
XML responses
Labs: install Solr, run queries

Sorting results
Query parsers
Faceting
Result grouping
Labs: advanced queries

Adding content
Deleting data
Dedupe processor
Labs: indexing collections

Adding fields
Analyzing text
Labs

Field weighting
Phrase queries
Function queries
Fuzzy search
Labs

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Spell checking
Suggestions
Highlighting
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Commit strategies
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