Introduction to Solr

Apache Solr serves search requests at enterprises and the largest companies around the world. Built on top of the top-notch Apache Lucene library, Solr makes indexing and searching integration into your applications straightforward. This talk will introduce Solr's capabilities with live demonstrations.

Solr provides faceted navigation, spell checking, highlighting, clustering, grouping, and other search features. Solr can index rich documents such as PDF, Word, HTML, and other file types. Query volume scales with replication and collection size with distributed capabilities including the power of the new SolrCloud near-real-time distributed indexing.

About Erik Hatcher

Erik Hatcher is the co-author of "Lucene in Action" as well as co-author of "Java Development with Ant". Erik has been an active member of the Lucene community - a leading Lucene and Solr committer, member of the Lucene Project Management Committee, member of the Apache Software Foundation as well as a frequent invited speaker at various industry events. Erik co-founded Lucid Imagination, and is a member of its technical staff.

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