Short overview of popular search engines and their integration into Drupal.

1. SEARCH ENGINES:
BEST PRACTICE
BY YULIYA
PRACH
“EPAM SYSTEMS”

2. 8 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE ON-SITE
SEARCH
1) Search Box Prominence
2) Search Box Text
3) High-Quality Thumbnails in
Search Results
4) Auto Suggestion and Spell
Correction
5) Fuzzy Matching
6) Grid vs. List View
7) Quick Preview
8) Reviews and Rating
Displayed in Search Result

3. • INSTALL SOLR
• APACHE SOLR SEARCH
• SEARCH API SOLR SEARCH

4. Solr
Open source enterprise search platform
Written in Java
Solr 4 adds NoSQL features
Near Real Time Search
Optimistic Concurrency Control
Atomic updates

5. SOLR
 Big community
 Take off the workload of database
 Response in csv, xml, json, php ...
 Spellchecking
 Results Grouping
 Decision tree faceting (Pivot facets)
 Hosting Support (websolr.com, solrhq.com)
 No Split Brain situations

6. Need a schema
No Ability to search across multiple
indexes
No Support for multiple document
types per schema
SOLR

7. HOW TO INSTALL SOLR?

8. SUDO APT-GET INSTALL OPENJDK-7-JRE << UBUNTU(MINT)
SU -C "YUM INSTALL JAVA-1.7.0-OPENJDK” <<
ORACLE/CENTOS/SUSE/FEDORA
2) INSTALLING SOLR
1) DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING
JAVA
WGET
HTTP://ARCHIVE.APACHE.ORG/DIST/LUCENE/SOLR/4.10.3/SOLR
-4.10.3.TGZ
TAR -XVF SOLR-4.10.3.TGZ
/”PATH TO YOUR UNCOMPRESSED SOLR”/BIN/SOLR START

9. 3) CHECKING
http://localhost:8983/solr
4) COPY FILES FROM /”module_name”/solr-conf/solr-4.x TO
solr/collection1/conf

10. APACHE SOLR SEARCH
VS
SEARCH API SOLR SEARCH

11. INTEGRATING SOLR TO DRUPAL
Apachesolr Search Search API Solr Serch
• Needs a custom module for adding
fields to index
• Indexes only nodes (by default)
• To add some useful things needs a
custom written module
• Stores lots of data and return it in
response
• Integrates into default search form
• Adding fields to index in admin panel
• Indexes entities
• A lot of modules on Drupal.org to
extend its functionality
• Stores only ID (to load data hits
database)
• Creating a search page and search
form requires additional modules or
views

12. APACHESOLR SEARCH

13. SEARCH API SOLR SEARCH

14. FACETED SEARCH
Facet API & Facet Slider (Apache Solr Search)
Search facets & Search API ranges (Search API Solr
Search)

15. EXTENDING SEARCH
Search API Pages & Search API Page Block
Search API Autocomplete/Apache Solr Autocomplete
Rich Snippets
Search Api Live Result
Searchcloud Block
Display suite
Fuzzy Search

16. SEARCH PAGE EXAMPLE

17. Elastic Search Connector

18. Elastic Search
Schemaless
Rapid feature development
Allows multiple types of documents
per index
Aggregations
Percolator (prospective search)

19. Prone to 'Split Brain' Situations
Poor documentation
Some missing features (Results
Grouping, Decision Tree Faceting)
Only json response
Elastic Search

20. INSTALLING ELASTICSEARCH

21. INSTALLING ELASTICSEARCH
1) Download and install the latest version of OPENJDK
2) Download needed version from
http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/elkdownloads/
3) Unzip it in the destination folder
4) Run bin/elasticsearch in Linux or bin/elasticsearch.bat in Windows
5) Go to localhost:9200 to check whether it works

22. ELASTICSEARCH CONNECTOR

23. THANKS FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!
E-mail:
Yuliya_Prach@epam.com
Skype: yulichka_lviv