
Apache Solr Search Patterns
Leverage the power of Apache Solr to power up your business by navigating your users to their data quickly and efficiently
Jayant Kumar(Author)
Packt Publishing
Published on 24. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
316 pages
978-1-78398-184-7 (ISBN)
Description
Key Features
Book DescriptionThis book is for developers who already know how to use Solr and are looking at procuring advanced strategies for improving their search using Solr. This book is also for people who work with analytics to generate graphs and reports using Solr. Moreover, if you are a search architect who is looking forward to scale your search using Solr, this is a must have book for you.
It would be helpful if you are familiar with the Java programming language.What you will learn
Customize the Solr scoring algorithm to get better and more relevant search results Use Solr with big data for analytical purposes Get insights into Solr internals-indexing and search Setting up and scaling with Solr cloud Implement spatial search with Solr Understand Finite State Transducers (FST) and implement text tagging using FST Breeze through the strategies used in executing search using Solr in e-commerce, advertising, and real estate websites Learn more about how to use Solr with AJAX
Who this book is forThis book is for developers who already know how to use Solr and are looking at procuring advanced strategies for improving their search using Solr. This book is also for people who work with analytics to generate graphs and reports using Solr. Moreover, if you are a search architect who is looking forward to scale your search using Solr, this is a must have book for you.
Book DescriptionThis book is for developers who already know how to use Solr and are looking at procuring advanced strategies for improving their search using Solr. This book is also for people who work with analytics to generate graphs and reports using Solr. Moreover, if you are a search architect who is looking forward to scale your search using Solr, this is a must have book for you.
It would be helpful if you are familiar with the Java programming language.What you will learn
Customize the Solr scoring algorithm to get better and more relevant search results Use Solr with big data for analytical purposes Get insights into Solr internals-indexing and search Setting up and scaling with Solr cloud Implement spatial search with Solr Understand Finite State Transducers (FST) and implement text tagging using FST Breeze through the strategies used in executing search using Solr in e-commerce, advertising, and real estate websites Learn more about how to use Solr with AJAX
Who this book is forThis book is for developers who already know how to use Solr and are looking at procuring advanced strategies for improving their search using Solr. This book is also for people who work with analytics to generate graphs and reports using Solr. Moreover, if you are a search architect who is looking forward to scale your search using Solr, this is a must have book for you.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78398-184-7 (9781783981847)
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Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
Content
Table of Contents
Solr indexing internals
Customizing Solr scoring algorithm
Custom queries
Solr for big data
Solr in e-commerce
Solr for Spatial search
Using Solr in an Advertising system
Ajax Solr
Solr cloud
Text tagging with lucene FST
Solr indexing internals
Customizing Solr scoring algorithm
Custom queries
Solr for big data
Solr in e-commerce
Solr for Spatial search
Using Solr in an Advertising system
Ajax Solr
Solr cloud
Text tagging with lucene FST