Solr Basics

Module 1: Introduction and Installation

• Typical use cases and the basic architecture of Apache Solr

• How Solr, Apache Lucene, and web applications work together

• Installing and starting a Solr instance

• Understanding collections, cores, shards, and replicas

• Overview of the Solr administration interface

• Important configuration files and directory structures

Module 2: Data Modelling and Indexing

• Documents, fields, field types, and unique keys

• Fundamentals of maintainable schema design

• Schema configuration and use of the Schema Browser

• Dynamic fields and important schema directives

• Indexing data through the administration interface and APIs

• Updating and removing documents from the index

• Using update processors to prepare and transform data

Module 3: Search Queries and Request Handlers

• Structure and execution of basic search queries

• General Solr parameters and URL parameters

• Standard Query Parser, DisMax, and eDisMax

• Configuring and using request handlers

• Phrase queries, range queries, and function queries

• Fuzzy search and phonetic “sounds like” searches

• Filtering, sorting, and paginating search results

Module 4: Relevance and Result Presentation

• Fundamentals of relevance scoring

• How fields, terms, and document properties influence scoring

• Boosting fields, terms, and queries

• Improving relevance with DisMax and eDisMax

• Analysing and explaining search results

• Highlighting hits and search terms

• Finding similar documents with MoreLikeThis

• Strategies for testing and improving search quality