Solr is a scalable, ready to deploy, search/storage engine optimized to search large volumes of text-centric data. Solr is enterprise-ready, fast and highly scalable. In this tutorial, we are going to learn the basics of Solr and how you can use it in practice.

Audience

This tutorial will be helpful for all those developers who would like to understand the basic functionalities of Apache Solr in order to develop sophisticated and high-performing applications.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, we expect that the reader has good Java programming skills (although it is not mandatory) and some prior exposure to Lucene and Hadoop environment.