Searching

Overview of Searching in Solr: An introduction to searching with Solr.

Velocity Search UI: A simple search UI using the VelocityResponseWriter.

Relevance: Conceptual information about understanding relevance in search results.

Query Syntax and Parsing: A brief conceptual overview of query syntax and parsing. It also contains the following sub-sections:

• Common Query Parameters: No matter the query parser, there are several parameters that are common to all of them.

• The Standard Query Parser: Detailed information about the standard Lucene query parser.

• The DisMax Query Parser: Detailed information about Solr’s DisMax query parser.

• The Extended DisMax Query Parser: Detailed information about Solr’s Extended DisMax (eDisMax) Query Parser.

• Function Queries: Detailed information about parameters for generating relevancy scores using values from one or more numeric fields.

• Local Parameters in Queries: How to add local arguments to queries.

• Other Parsers: More parsers designed for use in specific situations.

JSON Request API: Overview of Solr’s JSON Request API.

• JSON Query DSL: Detailed information about a simple yet powerful query language for JSON Request API.

JSON Facet API: Overview of Solr’s JSON Facet API.

Faceting: Detailed information about categorizing search results based on indexed terms.

Highlighting: Detailed information about Solr’s highlighting capabilities, including multiple underlying highlighter implementations.

Spell Checking: Detailed information about Solr’s spelling checker.

Query Re-Ranking: Detailed information about re-ranking top scoring documents from simple queries using more complex scores.

• Learning To Rank: How to use LTR to run machine learned ranking models in Solr.

Transforming Result Documents: Detailed information about using DocTransformers to add computed information to individual documents

Searching Nested Documents: Detailed information about constructing nested and hierarchical queries.

Suggester: Detailed information about Solr’s powerful autosuggest component.

MoreLikeThis: Detailed information about Solr’s similar results query component.

Pagination of Results: Detailed information about fetching paginated results for display in a UI, or for fetching all documents matching a query.

Result Grouping: Detailed information about grouping results based on common field values.

Result Clustering: Detailed information about grouping search results based on cluster analysis applied to text fields. A bit like "unsupervised" faceting.

Spatial Search: How to use Solr’s spatial search capabilities.

The Terms Component: Detailed information about accessing indexed terms and the documents that include them.

The Term Vector Component: How to get term information about specific documents.

The Stats Component: How to return information from numeric fields within a document set.

The Query Elevation Component: How to force documents to the top of the results for certain queries.

The Tagger Handler: The SolrTextTagger, for basic named entity tagging in text.

Response Writers: Detailed information about configuring and using Solr’s response writers.

Near Real Time Searching: How to include documents in search results nearly immediately after they are indexed.

RealTime Get: How to get the latest version of a document without opening a searcher.

Exporting Result Sets: Functionality to export large result sets out of Solr.

Parallel SQL Interface: An interface for sending SQL statements to Solr, and using advanced parallel query processing and relational algebra for complex data analysis.

The Analytics Component: A framework to compute complex analytics over a result set.