Steps for backing up and restoring a Solr collection using the Collections API
On April 6th, 2020 I was invited to become a committer on the Apache Solr project. My journey to becoming a committer started in earnest 4662 days before that! …
Publication
Solr Enterprise Server
We co-wrote the first book on Solr. Now in its third edition.
Does your team use Apache Solr, but struggle to deliver relevant, high-quality search results? ‘Think Like a Relevance Engineer’ (TLRE) is a 2-part Solr training that gives your team…
In our first couple of posts, we ended up doing a lot of the processing work outside of Solr. It gave me a chance to polish my PowerShell skills,…
Intro I joined OSC a month ago as their first data-scientist, so I’ve been drinking from a firehose trying to get up to speed on Solr. After breezing through…
Don’t want to deploy a separate Tika server? But need Tika server-like capabilities and you already have Solr? Then this is the solution for you! What I am going…
Extracting content from file formats using Tika as a standalone service is the traditional architectural approach, and what my most recent project is built around. You can try out…
Recently I saw this post on solr-user mailing list asking about running Tika for text extraction in Solr, which if you follow the thread led to chorus of people…
For the last few years I’ve run free Lucene Hackdays around the same time of year as the largest conference in our open source search sector, Activate (previously known…
We’re very happy to present a guest blog by Alex Addison, Senior Developer at LexisNexis UK. Alex’s team will be presenting a talk on some of their work at…
Edismax is the query parser-of-choice for many Solr applications. The default behaviors are correct for a wide range of use cases. The syntax has become familiar. While edismax has…