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.
