Apache Solr high performance : boost the performance of Solr instances and troubleshoot real-time problems / Surendra Mohan ; cover image by Glain Clarrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mohan, Surendra, author.

Contributor:

Clarrie, Glain, cover designer.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lucene (Electronic resource).

Search engines--Programming.

Search engines.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (124 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing Ltd, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Mohan Surendra: Surendra Mohan, who has served a few top-notch software organizations in varied roles, is currently a freelance software consultant. He has been working on various cutting-edge technologies like Drupal, Moodle, Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Node. js, SoapUI, and so on for the past 10 years. He also delivers technical talks at various community events like Drupal Meetups and Drupal Camps. To find out more about him, his write-ups, technical blogs, and much more, go to http: //www. surendramohan. info/. He has also written the books Administrating Solr and Apache Solr High Performance published by Packt Publishing and has reviewed other technical books such as Drupal 7 Multi Site Configuration and Drupal Search Engine Optimization, as well as titles on Drupal commerce, ElasticSearch, Drupal related video tutorials, titles on OpsView, and many more. Additionally, he writes technical blogs and articles with SitePoint. com. His published blogs and articles can be found at http: //www. sitepoint. com/author/smohan/.

Summary:

This book is an easy-to-follow guide, full of hands-on, real-world examples. Each topic is explained and demonstrated in a specific and user-friendly flow, from search optimization using Solr to Deployment of Zookeeper applications. This book is ideal for Apache Solr developers and want to learn different techniques to optimize Solr performance with utmost efficiency, along with effectively troubleshooting the problems that usually occur while trying to boost performance. Familiarity with search servers and database querying is expected.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Installing Solr; Prerequisites; Installing components; Summary; Chapter 2: Boost Your Search; Scoring; Boosting query-time and index-time; Index-time boosting; Query-time boosting; Troubleshoot queries and scores; The dismax query parser; Lucene DisjunctionMaxQuery; Autophrase boosting; Configuring autophrase boosting; Configuring the phrase slop; Boosting a partial phrase; Boost queries; Boost functions; Boost addition and multiplication; Function queries

Field referencesFunction references; Mathematical operations; The ord() and rord() functions; Other functions; Boosting the function query; Logarithm; Reciprocal; Linear; Inverse reciprocal; Summary; Chapter 3: Performance Optimization; Solr performance factors; Solr caching; Document caching; Query result caching; Filter caching; Result pages caching; Using SolrCloud; Creating a SolrCloud cluster; Multiple collections within a cluster; Managing a SolrCloud cluster; Distributed indexing and searching; Stopping automatic document distribution; Near real-time search; Summary

Chapter 4: Additional Performance Optimization TechniquesDocuments similar to those returned in the search result; Sorting results by function values; Searching for homophones; Ignore the defined words from being searched; Summary; Chapter 5: Troubleshooting; Dealing with the corrupt index; Reducing the file count in the index; Dealing with the locked index; Truncating the index size; Dealing with a huge count of open files; Dealing with out-of-memory issues; Dealing with an infinite loop exception in shards; Dealing with expensive garbage collection

Bulk updating a single field without full indexationSummary; Chapter 6: Performance Optimization with ZooKeeper; Getting familiar with ZooKeeper; Prerequisites for a distributed server; Aid your distributed system using ZooKeeper; Setting an ideal node count for ZooKeeper; Setting up, configuring, and deploying ZooKeeper; Setting up ZooKeeper; Configuring Zookeeper; Deploying ZooKeeper; Applications of ZooKeeper; Summary; Appendix; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 8, 2014).

ISBN:

9781782164838

1782164839

OCLC:

874965998