Solr in drupal 7 index and search more entities

1. Solr in Drupal 7:
search more entities
Liang Shen

2. Who am I? @shenzhuxi
● Drupal developer in European Bioinformatics
Institute
● Maintainer of modules on Drupal.org
○ apachesolr_user_indexer
○ apachesolr_file
○ pdf
○ og_moderation
○ og_workflow
○ fileviewer
○ highlight

3. Lucene/Solr
State of the art of full text search engine

4. Drupal7 - CMS to Framework
Everything is node Everything is entity
● Content ● Core:
● User profile ○ Content
○ User
● Product ○ Taxonomy
● OG group ● OG: Group entity
● Image ● File entity (Media)
● ... ● Commerce: product
● ...

5. Apachesolr 7.x
● apachesolr
● apachesolr_user_indexer
● apachesolr_og
● apachesolr_file
● apachesolr_commerce
● apachesolr_multisitesearch
● facetapi
● apache_location

6. Examples
● drupal.org
● lucidimagination.com
● UberOrder.com

7. Set up Solr
Easy way: Not so easy way:
● Acquia search ● Linux server/AWS

8. Tutorial by Nick Veenhof
http://www.nickveenhof.be/blog/simple-guide-
install-apache-solr-3x-drupal-7

9. Solr can do more magic
● Recommendation engine
○ example: Journal Selector
● Key/value storage
○ fast read/query
○ slow write

10. Thank you!
Questions?
http://munich2012.drupal.
org/program/sessions/drupal-community-
china