{"id":11196,"date":"2013-09-25T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T23:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2013-09-25T18:14:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T23:14:04","slug":"solr-the-most-important-open-source-project-youve-never-heard-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11196","title":{"rendered":"Solr: The Most Important Open Source Project You\u2019ve Never Heard Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Lucene is used by many companies and groups as <a title=\"Lucene Java wiki\" href=\"http:\/\/wiki.apache.org\/lucene-java\/PoweredBy\" target=\"_blank\">the foundation for their search engines<\/a>. These organizations include AOL, Disney, and <a title=\"Eclipse\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eclipse<\/a>. Lucene\u2019s chief selling point is that the indexing engine, with a footprint of a mere megabyte of RAM, can <a title=\"Indexing Throughput\" href=\"http:\/\/people.apache.org\/%7Emikemccand\/lucenebench\/indexing.html\" target=\"_blank\">index up to 150GBs per hour of text<\/a> on commercial off-the-shelf hardware. That\u2019s darn good!<\/p>\n<p>Solr comes into the picture as the search platform front-end for Lucene. It provides full-text search, including the ability to handle such formats as Microsoft Word and PDF with Apache <a title=\"Apache Tika\" href=\"http:\/\/tika.apache.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tika<\/a>; hit test highlighting; and <a title=\"Designing for Faceted Search\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uie.com\/articles\/faceted_search\/\" target=\"_blank\">faceted search<\/a>, which incorporates free text searching with topic taxonomy indexing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.smartbear.com\/open-source\/solr-the-most-important-open-source-project-youve-never-heard-of\/\">Solr: The Most Important Open Source Project You\u2019ve Never Heard Of<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the hood, Solr is written in Java and it relies on Lucene for its core functionality.\u00a0 It usually runs within a servlet container such as the <a title=\"Eclipse - Jetty\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/jetty\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jetty<\/a> HTTP server and <a title=\"Package javax.servlet\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/javaee\/5\/api\/javax\/servlet\/package-summary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Javax.servlet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucene is used by many companies and groups as the foundation for their search engines. These organizations include AOL, Disney, and Eclipse. Lucene\u2019s chief selling point is that the indexing engine, with a footprint of a mere megabyte of RAM, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=11196\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[52,138,345,986],"class_list":["post-11196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-apache","tag-foss-2","tag-java","tag-search-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11198,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11196\/revisions\/11198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}