Solr and Cloud (1.5 day session)Overview

Solr and Cloud

 (1.5 day session)

Overview

After taking this course you will understand the differences and use-cases for Solr and SolrCloud, create Spatial Search and Function Queries, perform Document Grouping, configure and tune Query Spellchecking and Suggesters. During the second half of the source you will learn how to tune and scale Solr and SolrCloud etc

For whom

The course is designed for technical attendees of any knowledge level and is aimed at those who need to configure, tune and manage Solr and have only basic Solr knowledge. No prior Solr experience is required. Experience with Linux systems is not a must, but basic familiarity with running shell commands (e.g., using curl command) will be good

Course Outline


Solr Architecture

  • Solr master – slave architecture

  • SolrCloud architecture

  • Solr master – slave vs SolrCloud

  • Spatial Search

  • Indexing spatial data

  • Spatial filters

  • Distance function queries

  • Bounding box field

  • Documents Grouping

  • Grouping documents by field value

  • Grouping documents by function value

  • Grouping documents by query

  • Paging in grouped results

  • Controlling number of groups and documents count

  • Sorting inside groups

  • Documents grouping and faceting

  • Using collapse query parser

  • Using expand component

  • Function Queries

  • Using function queries

  • Math function queries

  • Term function queries

  • Example use cases

  • Boosting by using functions

  • Sorting by function

  • External file field type

  • Using external file field type for boosting

  • Lab

    • Using efficient range filtering

    • Sorting on the basis of function value

    • Including function value in returned documents

    • Boosting using function value

  • Spellchecking

  • Spellchecker with its own index

  • File based spellchecker

  • Index based spellchecker

  • Building spellchecker

  • Including spell checking results with queries

  • Querying spellchecker independently

  • Maximum number of suggestions

  • Collation

  • Controlling collation

  • Accuracy

  • Extended results

  • Lab

    • Working with Spellchecker configuration

    • Running queries with Spellchecker

    • Using various Spellchecker implementations

  • Suggesters

  • What are suggesters

  • Suggester types

  • Configuring suggesters

  • Using different dictionary factories

  • Lab

    • Creating suggester configuration for a field

    • Building suggester dictionary automatically

    • Creating separate suggester configuration

    • Using created suggester

  • Configuring Solr Internals

  • General solrconfig.xml section

  • Replication

  • Update request processors

  • Language detection

  • Configuring logging

  • Slow query log

  • Lab

    • Preparing master – slave replication

    • Language detection during document indexing

    • Configuring slow logging

  • Tuning Solr

  • Indexing threads

  • Indexing buffer size

  • Auto commit tuning

  • Caches

  • Replication throttling

  • Warming up

  • Lab

    • Configuring indexing buffer

    • Configuring indexing threads

    • Configuring auto commits

    • Configuring warming queries

  • Scaling Solr & SolrCloud

  • Solr master & slaves configuration

  • ZooKeeper role explained

  • Working with ZooKeeper

  • Sharding

  • Using Collections API

  • Caches in SolrCloud

  • Aliases

  • Lab

    • Creating collections

    • Creating aliases

    • Setting up caches for rapidly changing data

    • Setting up caches for high querying scenarios

  • Operations

  • Running Solr as a service on Linux and Windows systems

  • Backing up Solr master ­ slave

  • Backing up SolrCloud

  • Current cluster state view

  • Authentication and authorization