Testing Solr update XML messages
When updating a Solr index with the DataImportHandler or one of the available Solr clients you don’t really need to bother with all the details of updates. Most clients just give a simplified “add”,...
View ArticleSolarium PHP Solr client
I’ve worked on a lot of Solr implementations in PHP applications. There are multiple solutions: manual HTTP requests, the solr-php-client library, custom implementations etcetera. However they all have...
View ArticleSolr update performance
When I started working with Solr I issued updates just like I was used to do with databases: a single command followed by a commit. Later I discovered this was far from optimal, and started using...
View ArticleWhat features would you like to get in Solarium?
Solarium is quite a young project, and there are still a lot of features to add. The project has been gaining some interest recently and I would really like to know which features are most wanted. So,...
View ArticleSolarium 2.0
Several weeks ago Solarium 1.0 was released. Since then lots of development has been going on. Many features were added: MoreLikeThis support, range facet, multiQuery facet, DisMax support, geospatial...
View ArticleSolr select query GET vs POST request
In most cases a GET request is used to send select queries to Solr. This is how it’s done in most examples, it’s easy to test in the browser and easy to implement. However, Solr also supports POST...
View ArticleSolr delay component
First of all, why would you want to slow Solr down? After all, it’s great speed is one of the main reasons it’s become so popular. Well, I need to slow Solr down for testing load balancing timeouts /...
View ArticleBenchmarking PHP Solr response data handling
Solr supports multiple output formats. Some are for general use (xml, json) and some are even language specific. If you’re using PHP these are the most logical response writer formats: xml json phps...
View ArticleSolarium 3
A new major version of Solarium (3.0.0) is out! This is the biggest changeset for Solarium since the start of the project, and includes the following: Support only PHP 5.3+ Fully namespaced File...
View ArticleIntroducing the Solr ScriptUpdateProcessor
Earlier this year joined forces with a great group of developers, to create the Dutch Web Alliance. You can read all about it here: www.dutchweballiance.nl I’ve recently published an article on the DWA...
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