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Solr is a standalone enterprise search server with a web-services like API. You put documents in it (called "indexing") via XML over HTTP. You query it via HTTP GET and receive XML results.
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< li > Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities < / li >
< li > Optimized for High Volume Web Traffic < / li >
< li > Standards Based Open Interfaces - XML and HTTP < / li >
< li > Comprehensive HTML Administration Interfaces < / li >
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< li > Scalability - Efficient Replication to other Solr Search Servers < / li >
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< li > Flexible and Adaptable with XML configuration < / li >
< li > Extensible Plugin Architecture < / li >
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< li > A Real Data Schema, with Dynamic Fields, Unique Keys < / li >
< li > Powerful Extensions to the Lucene Query Language < / li >
< li > Support for Dynamic Result Grouping and Filtering < / li >
< li > Advanced, Configurable Text Analysis < / li >
< li > Highly Configurable and User Extensible Caching < / li >
< li > Performance Optimizations < / li >
< li > External Configuration via XML < / li >
< li > An Administration Interface < / li >
< li > Monitorable Logging < / li >
< li > Fast Incremental Updates and Snapshot Distribution < / li >
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< li > Defines the field types and fields of documents< / li >
< li > Can drive more intelligent processing< / li >
< li > Declarative Lucene Analyzer specification< / li >
< li > Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of fields< / li >
< li > CopyField functionality allows indexing a single field multiple ways, or combining multiple fields into a single searchable field< / li >
< li > Explicit types eliminates the need for guessing types of fields< / li >
< li > External file-based configuration of stopword lists, synonym lists, and protected word lists< / li >
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< li > XML/HTTP and JSON/HTTP interfaces< / li >
< li > Highlighted context snippets< / li >
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< li > Sort specifications added to query language< / li >
< li > Constant scoring range and prefix queries - no idf, coord, or lengthNorm factors, and no restriction on the number of terms the query matches.< / li >
< li > Function Query - influence the score by a function of a field's numeric value or ordinal< / li >
< li > Performance Optimizations< / li >
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< li > Pluggable query handlers and extensible XML data format< / li >
< li > Document uniqueness enforcement based on unique key field< / li >
< li > Batches updates and deletes for high performance< / li >
< li > User configurable commands triggered on index changes< / li >
< li > Searcher concurrency control< / li >
< li > Correct handling of numeric types for both sorting and range queries< / li >
< li > Ability to control where docs with the sort field missing will be placed< / li >
< li > Support for dynamic grouping of search results< / li >
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< li > Configurable Query Result, Filter, and Document cache instances< / li >
< li > Pluggable Cache implementations< / li >
< li > Cache warming in background
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< li > When a new searcher is opened, configurable searches are run against
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slow first hits. During warming, the current searcher handles live requests.
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< li > Autowarming in background
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< li > The most recently accessed items in the caches of the current
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< li > Fast/small filter implementation< / li >
< li > User level caching with autowarming support< / li >
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< li > Efficient distribution of index parts that have changed via rsync transport< / li >
< li > Pull strategy allows for easy addition of searchers< / li >
< li > Configurable distribution interval allows tradeoff between timeliness and cache utilization< / li >
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< li > Comprehensive statistics on cache utilization, updates, and queries< / li >
< li > Text analysis debugger, showing result of every stage in an analyzer< / li >
< li > Web Query Interface w/ debugging output
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< li > parsed query output< / li >
< li > Lucene explain() document score detailing< / li >
< li > explain score for documents outside of the requested range to debug why a given document wasn't ranked higher.< / li >
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