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< h1 > Introduction to The Solr Enterprise Search Server< / h1 >
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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 >
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< li > Standards Based Open Interfaces - XML,JSON and HTTP < / li >
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< li > Comprehensive HTML Administration Interfaces < / li >
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< li > Server statistics exposed over JMX for monitoring < / 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 Numeric Types, Dynamic Fields, Unique Keys < / li >
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< li > Powerful Extensions to the Lucene Query Language < / li >
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< li > Faceted Search and Filtering < / li >
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< 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 >
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< li > Fast Incremental Updates and Index Replication < / li >
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< li > Highly Scalable Distributed search with sharded index across multiple hosts < / li >
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< li > XML, CSV/delimited-text, and binary update formats < / li >
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< li > Easy ways to pull in data from databases and XML files from local disk and HTTP sources < / li >
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< li > Rich Document Parsing and Indexing (PDF, Word, HTML, etc) using Apache Tika < / li >
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< li > Multiple search indices < / 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 >
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< li > Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields< / li >
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< 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 > Many additional text analysis components including word splitting, regex and sounds-like filters< / li >
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< li > HTTP interface with configurable response formats (XML/XSLT, JSON, Python, Ruby, PHP, Velocity, binary)< / li >
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< li > Sort by any number of fields< / li >
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< li > Advanced DisMax query parser for high relevancy results from user-entered queries< / li >
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< li > Highlighted context snippets< / li >
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< li > Faceted Searching based on unique field values, explicit queries, or date ranges< / li >
< li > Multi-Select Faceting by tagging and selectively excluding filters< / li >
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< li > Spelling suggestions for user queries< / li >
< li > More Like This suggestions for given document< / li >
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< li > Function Query - influence the score by user specified complex functions of
numeric fields or query relevancy scores.< / li >
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< li > Range filter over Function Query results< / li >
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< li > Date Math - specify dates relative to "NOW" in queries and updates< / li >
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< li > Dynamic search results clustering using Carrot2< / li >
< li > Numeric field statistics such as min, max, average, standard deviation < / li >
< li > Combine queries derived from different syntaxes< / li >
< li > Auto-suggest functionality< / li >
< li > Allow configuration of top results for a query, overriding normal scoring and sorting< / li >
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< li > Performance Optimizations< / li >
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< li > Dynamically create and delete document collections without restarting< / li >
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< li > Pluggable query handlers and extensible XML data format< / li >
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< li > Pluggable user functions for Function Query< / li >
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< li > Customizable component based request handler with distributed search support< / li >
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< li > Document uniqueness enforcement based on unique key field< / li >
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< li > Duplicate document detection, including fuzzy near duplicates< / li >
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< li > Custom index processing chains, allowing document manipulation before indexing< / li >
< li > User configurable commands triggered on index changes< / li >
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< li > Ability to control where docs with the sort field missing will be placed< / li >
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< li > "Luke" request handler for corpus information< / li >
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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< / li >
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< 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 > Replication and automatic reloading of configuration files< / li >
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< li > Comprehensive statistics on cache utilization, updates, and queries< / li >
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< li > Interactive schema browser that includes index statistics< / li >
< li > Replication monitoring< / li >
< li > Full logging control< / li >
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< 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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