Solr Introduction

Solr Tutorial

Introduction:

             Solr is a open-source enterprise full-text search platform written in Java, build on top of Apache Lucene. Major features of Solr includes full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.

         Solr is basically a REST-FUL API which responds in JSON format by default and many other formats such as XML,CSV,etc using wt parameter while querying in Solr for results(For your information). If you don't know, don't worry we will learn about the Solr in detail in further posts.