Super flexible AutoComplete with Solr

AutoComplete or AutoSuggest has in recent years become a “must-have” search feature. Solr can do AutoComplete in a number of ways (such as SuggesterTermsComponent and Faceting using facet.prefix), but in this post we’ll consider a more advanced and flexible option, namely querying a dedicated Solr Core search index for the suggestions. You may think that this sounds heavy weight, but we’re talking small data here so it is really efficient and snappy!


Even if it’s some work setting up, the benefits to this approach are really compelling:

Solr 3.5 er sluppet

I dag ble en ny versjon av Apache Solr sluppet, nemlig versjon 3.5.0. Her er kunngjøringen fra Lucene PMC: The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 3.5.0! See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details. Solr 3.5.0 Release Highlights: Bug fixes and improvements from Apache

Solr 3.5 released

Today a new version of Apache Solr was released, version 3.5.0. Here’s the release statement from the Lucene PMC: The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Solr 3.5.0! See the CHANGES.txt file included with the release for a full list of details. Solr 3.5.0 Release Highlights: Bug fixes and improvements from Apache