Solr's mm parameter - Explanation of Min Number Should Match

This article explains the format used for specifying the “Min Number Should Match” criteria of the BooleanQuery objects built by the DisMaxRequestHandler.  Using this it is possible to specify a…

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Solr Core Discovery

How does Solr discover a core?


If you are a seasoned Solr developer and yet to migrate to latest releases, your answer might be ‘by registering the core by adding <cores> element…

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Solr: Backed up? Now you can restore soon!

One of the lesser known but cool features of ReplicationHandler is support for index backup. You must have used ReplicationHandler in…

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Beider Morse Phonetic Matching in Solr

Phonetic Search Overview: Phonetic search is widely used to search phonetically equivalent search terms to the desired search term. – e.g. searching for AVANTAJE while term actually is ADVANTAGE. Solr has…

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Apache Solr: data processing pipeline

Index time processing of data is crucial for developing a search engine and its…

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