What are the main characteristics of E Commerce search and why Apache Solr is one of the best search engines to power ecommerce websites. Characteristics of E-Commerce Search Solr: History Solr: A Brief Why Solr? Solr System Features of Solr Users Resources http://www.thepcwizard.in/p/about-me-and-blog.html

1. E-Commerce
Search
using
Apache
Solr
Presented
At:
Knowledge Sharing Meeting
Loginworks Softwares
11th, November 2013
By:
Rohan Makkar
rohan.makkar@loginworks.com
twitter.com/rohanmakkar
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2. What will you learn
 Characteristics of E-Commerce Search
 Solr: History
 Solr: A Brief
 Why Solr
 Solr System
 Features of Solr
 Users
 Resources
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4. E-Commerce Search is Special
Fast
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5. E-Commerce Search is Special
Powerful
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6. E-Commerce Search is Special
Scalable
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7. E-Commerce Search is Special
Flexible
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8. Solr to the Rescue
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9. Solr: History
 Developed at CNET Networks by Yonik
Seeley
 Donated to ASF (Apache Software
Foundation) in early 2006
 First public release in January 2007 (v 1.2)
 Now maintained as a sub-project of Lucene.
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10. Solr: A Brief
 Environment not a problem.
 100% Java
 Open Source
 Runs as a standalone full-text search server
within any servlet container
 Uses Lucene Java search library as its core
 Support most languages
 Apache 2.0 license - commercially friendly
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11. Solr: Fast
Fast at all time.
 Indexing
 CRUD Operations
 Searching
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12. Solr: Fast
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13. Solr: Powerful
 Indexes Data from
 Database (DIH)
 Binary Files (Apache Tika)
 Dynamic Clustering
 REST-like HTTP/XML, JSON APIs (so, you
can code virtually in any language)
 Admin tools
 Powerful Text Analysis and Tokenization
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14. Solr: Powerful
APIs
 HTTP GET/POST (curl or any other HTTP client)
 JSON – AjaxSolr
 Java - SolrJ (embedded or HTTP)
 Ruby – rSolr
 .NET - SolrNet, SolrSharp
More at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Solr
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15. Solr: Scalable
 Multi – Core
 Index Replication
 Distributed Search
(Sharding)
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16. Solr: Flexible
 Supports most languages
 Fully customizable
 Schema
 Dynamic fields
 Handler Mappings
 Plug-ins
 Settings like Caching & Warming Listeners
 Query Parser (Default Lucene or EDisMax)
 Boosting
 More control? Download the source code and
change the world.
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17. Solar System
Binary Files
DIH
Indexing
SOLR
Lucene
Query
Results
Web App
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18. Features: Powerful Full Text Search
/select?q=3s lipo
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19. Features: Autocomplete
/suggest?q=hel
/suggest?q=traxxa hel
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20. Features: Highlighting
&hl=true&hl.fl=Title
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21. Features: Spellchecking
Did you mean…?
 Dictionary Based
 Index Based
/spell?q=hubsn
Index based spell check on whichhobbystore.com
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22. Features: Faceting
Faceted Browsing or Guided Navigation
Hierarchy
Faceting
Location = Parents, Children
Location = Sets it belongs to
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23. Features: Faceting
&facet=on&facet.field=CategoryTrail
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24. Features: Faceting
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25. Features: Faceting

26. Features: Faceting

27. Features: …and more
 Phonetic Search
 More Like This (MLT)
 Tag Clouds
 Geo-spatial search
…..and even more
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28. Who uses it?
More at: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers
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29. Interested?
Read more at:
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
http://wiki.apache.org/solr
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/features.html
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30. Questions
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31. Thank You
for your patience
Rohan Makkar
Software Developer
Loginworks Softwares
rohan.makkar@loginworks.com
@rohanmakkar
http://www.thepcwizard.in/
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