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You're reading from Mastering Apache Solr 7.x An expert guide to advancing, optimizing, and scaling your enterprise search

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788837385

Length 308 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Solr

Concepts

Enterprise Search

Authors (3):

Dharmesh Vasoya

Chintan Mehta

Sandeep Nair

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Solr 7

2. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

3. Designing Schemas

4. Mastering Text Analysis Methodologies

5. Data Indexing and Operations

6. Advanced Queries – Part I

7. Advanced Queries – Part II

8. Managing and Fine-Tuning Solr

9. Client APIs – An Overview

Solr installation

Let's get up and running with Solr. At the time of writing of this book, the latest stable version of Solr was 7.1.0. This book focuses all its aspects on Apache Solr 7.1.0.

Getting up and running with Apache Solr requires the following prerequisites:

Java 8 (mandatory)
Cygwin (optional, recommended for Windows)
curl (optional, recommended)

So, you will necessarily require JRE version 1.8 or higher for Solr to run. Go ahead! Open Command Prompt, type the following command, and check your Java version:

java -version

It should show the following output:

If your output is something different, it means Java is not properly installed and it needs to be installed properly. Also, the PATH variable should point to JRE 1.8. You can download Java from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html if needed.

Cygwin and curl utilities are...

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Authors (3)

Nair

Nishanth Nair is a Mobile Solutions Architect, currently working as a Consultant for Sears Holdings Corporation. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering and has extensive experience with .NET technologies working for companies such as Accenture, McAfee, and Neudesic. He is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. In his free time, he likes to play cricket, tennis, and watch movies.

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Dharmesh Vasoya

Dharmesh Vasoya is a Liferay 6.2 certified developer. He has 5.5 years of experience in application development with technologies such as Java, Liferay, Spring, Hibernate, Portlet, and JSF. He has successfully delivered projects in various domains, such as healthcare, collaboration, communication, and enterprise CMS, using Liferay. Dharmesh has good command of the configuration setup of servers such as Solr, Tomcat, JBOSS, and Apache Web Server. He has good experience of clustering, load balancing and performance tuning. He completed his MCA at Ahmedabad University.

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Mehta

Chintan Mehta is a co-founder of KNOWARTH Technologies and heads the cloud/RIMS/DevOps team. He has rich, progressive experience in server administration of Linux, AWS Cloud, DevOps, RIMS, and on open source technologies. He is also an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. Chintan has authored MySQL 8 for Big Data, Mastering Apache Solr 7.x, MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide, and Hadoop Backup and Recovery Solutions. Also, he has reviewed Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices and Building Serverless Web Applications.

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