Apache Solr 1.1 is the first Solr release since joining the Apache Incubator.
Solr is a high performance full-text search server based on Lucene, written in Java5, and easily extensible through plugins written in Java. Documents are added to a search collection via XML over HTTP, and the search collection is queried via HTTP to receive an XML response (or alternately JSON, Python or Ruby text formats).
Major featurs include:
Solr is a high performance full-text search server based on Lucene, written in Java5, and easily extensible through plugins written in Java. Documents are added to a search collection via XML over HTTP, and the search collection is queried via HTTP to receive an XML response (or alternately JSON, Python or Ruby text formats).
Major featurs include:
- A powerful data schema
- External configuration via xml
- Faceted search
- Hit highlighting
- Flexible caching
- Replication
- A web admin interface
For more information see the detailed feature list.
The release is available for download here.
Apache Solr is currently under incubation and is slated to become a sub-project of the Apache Lucene project.