What this book covers

Chapter 1, Searching data, covers the steps to install Solr, how request and response are handled, ways to query your Solr for most relevant search results, and how to use faceting, geospacial, and distributed search.

Chapter 2, Monitoring Solr, covers how we can monitor Solr, what performance metrics we should be interested in, and how to monitor Solr by using various monitoring tools such as Opsview, New Relic, and Solr Performance Monitoring.

Chapter 3, Managing Solr, covers basic scripts of managing your Solr, scripts to configure both temporary and permanent Solr logs on Tomcat and Jetty, backup your Solr, and collection distribution scripts which include configuration of scripts, SSH, and Rsyncd setup, and how to manage Solr with Drupal 7.

Chapter 4, Optimizing Solr Tools and Scripts, covers business rules and how to write custom rules using Drools, language detection, comparative study of different language detections such as CLD, LangDetect, and Tika, what is NLP, OpenNLP, how does it function and what the different phases OpenNLP consists of and how to implement Solr operation tool using Drupal 7, and the corresponding contributed Drupal modules.

Appendix, Solr Resources, lists down the necessary and essential resources in the form of reference links, books, and video tutorial, which will help you to explore Solr further.