by Nayeemuddin Shahapure | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog, Enterprise Information Management
Introduction to Solr: Solr is an open-source search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. Solr is a more advanced version of Lucene’s search. It offers more functionality and is designed for scalability. Solr can be communicated via REST clients, wget, curl and...
by XTIVIA | Jan 18, 2015 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Are you using Liferay’s Solr 4 Search Engine EE? If so, you need to checkout XTIVIA Search! There are 2 parts to XTIVIA Search: XTIVIA’s solr4 web plugin XTIVIA’s search hook plugin The following features are included: Improved Performance...
by XTIVIA | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Infrastructure
We recently came across an interesting issue with one of our clients. Our client was trying to setup Solr 4.7.2 on WAS 8.x and was unsuccessful in starting up the Solr application. When they contacted us with the issue, the first thing we looked at was the AppServer...
by Asier Del Pozo | Apr 6, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
After talking about the Elastic Search main features, how to create an Elastic Search cluster, and the Liferay, Solr and Elastic Search comparison, here’s the most interesting part. Liferay and Elastic Search integration As far as I know no one...
by Asier Del Pozo | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
To continue this series of blogs about Elastic Search, I would like to focus on performance. A lot of customers ask the big question: for search, what is the best solution? Liferay as is? Solr? Elastic Search? Anything else? Many people would say that there is no...
by XTIVIA | Mar 23, 2014 | Blog, Portals
Clustering Solr 4.x Summary The recommended method for clustering Solr versions 4 and above is by leveraging the product’s new SolrCloud distributed capabilities to manage horizontal instance scaling. SolrCloud provides the following advanced features: Automatic...
by Asier Del Pozo | Mar 19, 2013 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Traditionally, building portals and/or web sites with “search that just works” has been hard but over the last few years, life has become easier. Various search tools such as Lucene and Solr have emerged, and platforms such as Liferay have integrated with...
by XTIVIA | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Enterprise Java, Portals
Liferay has extensive web content management capabilities. It can easily scale to present millions of pieces of content via the web. But, how do your users find what they want? Enterprise search can be a mystery to the uninitiated. Often it becomes a...
by Keith O'Connell | Feb 8, 2012 | Blog, Portals
As a followup to my previous article detailing how to deploy Liferay in a Jboss managed domain, I decided that I should build on that and explain how to deploy the Apache Solr enterprise search engine to a separate node within the Jboss-managed domain. This will...