Tips and Tricks
Welcome to our Tips and Tricks Blog, your ultimate resource for mastering the nuances of information retrieval. This specialized section is designed to empower professionals, enthusiasts, and learners alike with actionable insights, innovative techniques, and best practices that amplify efficiency and effectiveness in information retrieval tasks.
Common Errors with Apache Solr Feature and Model Stores
Common errors and warnings in manipulating feature stores and models in Solr. Pay attention also to JVM Heap and Zookeeper.
Apache Solr Learning to Rank Feature Stores and Models
How to list, upload, delete feature stores and models necessary in Solr for learning to rank.
Elasticsearch Alias Field Type
In this blog post we will briefly recap things we can't do when using the alias field type in Elasticsearch.
Digging in the Solr code: 5 minutes how to
Let's quickly setup a Solr development environment for implementation and debugging purposes, with our 5 minutes how to!
The Request Handlers Jungle – handleSelect and qt Parameter
This blog post is about the handleSelect and qt parameter in Apache Solr and their relation with the Request Handler mechanism.
Apache Solr Facets and ACL Filters Using Tag and Exclusion
Tag and Exclusion for Apache Solr Faceting is often misused. Here's a guide to optimal utilisation with a focus on ACL filtering scenarios.
Apache Solr Distributed Facets
How faceting is calculated in Apache Solr distributed architectures. It presents inner details explanation and practical examples.
Synonyms and Stopwords: Vademecum
In this post we'll cover two additional synonyms scenarios and we'll try to summarise all previous tips in a concise form.
Still Synonyms + Stopwords?? Mamma mia!
Synonyms and Stopwords: how to deal with missing synonym detection when the original text contains some "intruder" stopword?
Synonyms + Stopwords?? OMG!
How can we manage synonyms and stopwords at query time? In this article we will try to address this specific and very popular use case.
Apache Solr/Elasticsearch: How to Manage Multi-term Concepts out of the Box?
Approach for searching multi-term entities/concepts out-of-the-box, without installing any additional components.
SolrCloud exceptions with Apache Zookeeper
Practical tips to follow when your client application encounters some classic exceptions dealing with SolrCloud and Apache Zookeeper.
SolrCloud Leader Election Failing
A list of steps to solve a recurrent failing state in the SolrCloud leader election in a distributed Apache Solr architecture.
Distributed Search Tips for Apache Solr
This blog will focus on some tricky situations that can happen when running distributed search, the foundation for Apache Solr Scalability.