Solr

Owned by Craig Willis
Last updated: Oct 04, 2016
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Description

"Solr is an open source enterprise search platform, written in Java, from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling" More...


The Solr search engine is used by a variety of NDSC services including Dataverse and Sufia.


Demonstration video

Link to a short (5 minute) demonstration of the key features of the tool or service.

Primary features

From http://lucene.apache.org/solr/features.html:

  • Full-text search
  • Standards based open interfaces (HTML, XML, JSON)
  • Scalable, fast

Configuring Solr in NDS Labs

  • Add the Solr application
  • Edit the application configuration
  • Optional: Set the core name (default "mycore")
  • Optional: Change the local path to store Solr index data

See also