What is Apache Solr



Apache Solr is an open−source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene. It is a highlyscalable, reliable, and fault−tolerant, that provides distributed indexing, load-balanced querying,replication, centralized configuration, recovery, and automated failover. To achieve the search and navigation features of Apache Solr, most of the worlds popular sites use it. To learn more about Apache Solr, visit our tutorials by clicking here.

Installation Guide

Since this tutorial will be working extensively with Apache Solr. Make sure it is installed on your machine, if not already installed you can download it from official website.

Steps Post Installation

Once it is installed, we can create a Core. A Core in Apache Solr is equivalent to a database in RDBMS.

Create Core

Lets create a Core named tutorials_point, to do so navigate to bin directory and execute below command.

solr create -c users
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