Using the Solr search engine with Alfresco

Solr is a widely used open source search server provided by apache. It uses Lucene as its search engine, but addition to that it provides full enterprise search server capabilities. Solr provides a web based application that accepts http request and returns http response.

Here are some advantages of Solr:

• Advanced full-text search capabilities

• Provides faceted search

• Performance optimized for high volume web traffic

• Single server for indexes of multiple applications

• For clustered Alfresco servers, indexes can be maintained at a single Solr server

• Solr is highly scalable, provides clustering of Solr server.

• Web-based Solr administration interface

• Solr supports Lucene-style queries, so no need to change the queries

• Path queries are significantly improved in Solr

Solr Core is a very important term in Solr. Single Solr instances can have multiple Cores. Each core contains indexes and related configuration files, schema for that index. The advantage we get with...