Chapter 3. Key Solr concepts
This chapter covers
- What differentiates Solr from traditional database technologies
- The basic structure of Solr’s internal index
- How Solr performs complex queries using terms, phrases, and fuzzy matching
- How Solr calculates scores for matching queries to the most relevant documents
- How to balance returning relevant results versus returning all possible results
- How to model your content into denormalized documents
- How Solr scales across servers to handle billions of documents and queries
Now that we have Solr up and running, it’s important to gain a basic understanding of how a search engine operates and why you’d choose to use Solr to store and retrieve your content. Our main goal for this chapter is to provide ...
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