SOLR Search Engine

Very short and quick presentation about SOLR and haystack.

Transcript

1. SOLR Search Integration with Django using Haystack
2. What is SOLR • Apache Lucene project • Written in Java • Supports several big features including faceting • Fairly bulky compared to other search solutions, but is robust and trusted.
3. Faceted Searches • Can organize and filter search data through various facets • Facets aren’t supported by smaller, more trivial search engines such as Whoosh • Facets can be extremely useful in search sites on stores
4. Haystack Integration • Integration is simple • Interact with the Haystack API to create and write custom search code. • Code Demo
5. Schema Creation • Unlike other search engines, SOLR requires a defined schema • Haystack can build this for you • Every time a search field changes you’ll need to rebuild the schema and re-index • Example
6. Recommendation • SOLR has proven to be reliable but hard to debug when issues arise • Schema Creation • Pain to deploy changes • Exploring elastic search to replace it