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Apache Solr Search Patterns

You're reading from   Apache Solr Search Patterns Leverage the power of Apache Solr to power up your business by navigating your users to their data quickly and efficiently

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783981847
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jayant Kumar Jayant Kumar
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Preface 1. Solr Indexing Internals 2. Customizing the Solr Scoring Algorithm FREE CHAPTER 3. Solr Internals and Custom Queries 4. Solr for Big Data 5. Solr in E-commerce 6. Solr for Spatial Search 7. Using Solr in an Advertising System 8. AJAX Solr 9. SolrCloud 10. Text Tagging with Lucene FST Index

Using BRS queries instead of DisMax

Now that we know the internals of how DisMax queries work and how scoring happens in Solr, let's look at creating our own query syntax and parser for customizing our search. The question here is what is missing in eDisMax. Note that eDisMax provides a simple search syntax where we do not have to worry about the fields and the results are sorted by relevance. However, suppose the requirement is exactly opposite. The end user is an advanced user who knows the fields and what he or she is searching for. One such example is a search involving patents. The syntax for such a search is specified by BRS. In addition to Fielded and Boolean search, BRS also provides a proximity search with clauses such as SAME (in the same paragraph), WITH (in the same sentence), ADJ (adjacent with order), and NEAR (adjacent without order), along with parenthetical grouping. An example of a BRS query is as follows:

((galaxy ADJ samsung) SAME note) AND (mobile OR tablet)

BRS...

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