ABOUT THIS COURSE

Learn the basics of Solr (pronounced "solar"), an open source enterprise search platform, written in Java, from the Apache Lucene project.

Solr is a standalone full-text search server that uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it usable from most popular programming languages.

• Learn about Solr's major features, including full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.
• Learn how Solr is highly scalable and fault tolerant in providing distributed search and index replication.
• Learn why Solr is the most popular enterprise search engine.

COURSE SYLLABUS

• Module 1 - Search Engines
  1. Understand the importance of text search engines
  2. Understand the Solr search procedure
  3. Identify Solr components

• Module 2 - Configure and Add Documents to Solr
  1. Identifying the important files in a Solr installation
  2. Define the schema for documents in the index
  3. Understand the various ways to add documents to Solr

• Module 3 - Analyzers and Queries
  1. Use analyzers, tokenizers, and filters
  2. Construct queries

• Module 4 - SolrJ and Customization
  1. Create SolrJ applications
  2. Understand the customization options available in Solr

GENERAL INFORMATION

• This course is self-paced.
• It can be taken at any time.
• It can be audited as many times as you wish.
• Labs can be performed on the Cloud, or using a 64-bit system. If using a 64-bit system, you can install the required software (Linux-only), or use the supplied VMWare image. More details are provided in the section "Labs setup".

RECOMMENDED SKILLS PRIOR TO TAKING THIS COURSE

• Basic knowledge of operating systems (UNIX/Linux).
• Basic understanding of SQL and Java would be helpful.

REQUIREMENTS

• None

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