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Using Solr Operator to Autoscale Solr on Kubernetes

In this tutorial, you'll see how to deploy Solr on Kubernetes. You'll also see how to use the Solr Operator to autoscale a SolrCloud cluster based on CPU with the

All About Solr Replica Placement Plugins

With Solr 9 the Autoscaling Framework was removed - for being too complex and not terribly reliable - and instead we have Replica Placement Plugins. Unlike Autoscaling, replica placement only

Writing a Custom Sort Plugin for Solr

OK, so you want to sort your documents by something that can’t be implemented with Solr’s built-in functions. This calls for a custom function, which you can implement through your

solr-reindexer: Quick Way to Reindex to a New Collection

If you’re using Solr, for sure there are times when you change the schema and need to reindex. Quite often the source of truth is a database, so you can

Solr 6, SolrCloud and SQL Queries

With the recent release of Apache Lucene and Solr 6, we should familiarize ourselves with the juicy features that come with them. We have the new default Similarity implementation -

Solr 7 – New Replica Types

With the release of Solr 7 the community around it produced yet another great version of this search engine. As usual, there is an extensive list of changes, bug fixes

Solr V2 API – Quick Look

Last updated on Jan 11, 2018 We are all used to the Solr API that has been present in Solr from its beginnings. We send the data using HTTP protocol,

Sematext Solr AutoComplete: Introduction and Howto

Sematext Solr AutoComplete is an open-source Solr add-on that provides suggest-as-you-type functionality. In this post we'll explain how you can install it, load the autocomplete collection/core with suggestions and how

Solr New Metrics API: Quick look at Solr 6.4

As you know, in Sematext we looooove logs and metrics and we enjoy playing with them on a daily basis. We have our Logsene, which is all about logs and

Running Solr in Docker: How & Why

Docker is all the rage these days, but one doesn't hear about running Solr on Docker very much. Last month, we gave a talk on the topic of running containerized

Tuning Solr & Pipeline for Logs – Video & Slides

Not everyone uses Splunk or ELK stack for logs. A few weeks ago, at the Lucene/Solr Revolution conference in Boston, we gave a talk about using Solr for logging, along

Handling Shards in SolrCloud

Last updated on Jan 10, 2018 One of the things you learn when attending Sematext Solr training is how to scale Solr. We discuss various topics regarding leader shards and

DocValues Reindexing with Solr Streaming Expressions

Last updated on Jan 8, 2018 Last time, when talking about Solr 6 we learned how to use streaming expressions to automatically update data in a collection. You can imagine

SolrCloud: Dealing with Large Tenants and Routing

Last updated on Jan 10, 2018 Many Solr users need to handle multi-tenant data. There are different techniques that deal with this situation: some good, some not-so-good. Using routing to handle such