An up-to-date catalog search solution for Magento

An up-to-date catalog search solution for Magento - With Apache Solr and Elasticsearch

Presented at: MeetMagentoRomania 2015

by Dan Homorodean

Links to videos:
https://youtu.be/Df2Q1_JhTZk
https://youtu.be/sTx5wqwMDn8
https://youtu.be/ncK3pG03owo
https://youtu.be/4qiES_X2Ik4
https://youtu.be/36eyFgATPQQ

Transcript

1. An up-to-date catalog search solution for Magento With Apache Solr and Elasticsearch Speaker: Dan Homorodean Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elasticsearch BV, registered in the U.S. and in other countries. Apache Lucene, Apache Solr and their respective logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.
2. Goals
3. Goals Works with the latest versions of both search servers
4. Goals It's easy to configure and extend
5. Goals It's compatible with both Community Edition and Enterprise Edition
6. Goals Functions side-by-side with the default search engines in Magento
7. Goals Uses carefully configured document type mappings / schema
8. Goals Builds optimal search server queries
9. Goals Falls back to the default MySQL based engine whenever the search server is unavailable
10. Goals Stands out through its application design practices
11. Goals Provides a verbose logging option
12. Installation
13. Installation • Steps to take: ✔ Install Evozon search module ✔ Install Apache Solr using provided tool ✔ Install Elasticsearch ✔ Deploy Apache Solr collection configuration ✔ Deploy mappings to Elasticsearch using the tool ✔ Setup Magento to use the module for search ✔ Testing with a first search
14. Installation Please watch: https://youtu.be/Df2Q1_JhTZk
15. Setup for use Please watch: https://youtu.be/sTx5wqwMDn8
16. Features
17. Features ✔ Catalog products listing ✔ Quick search / full text search ✔ Suggestions for misspelled words ✔ Advanced search ✔ … many more to come …
18. Highlights (1) ✔ Offers basic Magento catalog listing and search functionality ✔ Full text search ✔ Offers support for multiple languages , 29 to be precise ✔ Other languages are handled with a general text type ✔ ICU tokenized and folded ✔ Pretty good results ✔ Special handling of varchar attributes : emphasis on codes and labels commonly found in those fields ✔ Support for stopwords, synonyms and stemming ✔ Search results re-scoring by phrase matching ✔ Product listing ✔ Sort out of stock products last ,applied together with the user selected sort ✔ Support for multiple currencies in price layer navigation
19. Highlights (2) ✔ Maintenance ✔ Index optimize cron ✔ multiple modes for run configuration ✔ optimizes the index when certain condition is met ✔ HTTP transport ✔ Support for multiple endpoints ✔ endpoint = host:port pair used by the client ✔ randomly choosing one for each request ✔ Support for Basic HTTP authentication ✔ Can use HTTP compression ✔ sent requests and responses for Elasticsearch ✔ only responses for Solr (Jetty) ✔ Connection keep-alive – by reusing cURL handle
20. Catalog products listing Please watch: https://youtu.be/ncK3pG03owo
21. Fulltext search Please watch: https://youtu.be/4qiES_X2Ik4
22. Suggestions for misspelled words Please watch: https://youtu.be/36eyFgATPQQ
23. What next? ✔ Go to http://magento.evozon.com ✔ Click the “Keep me posted” button ✔ Wait for great news from us
24. Thank you!