Solr is the blazing-fast, open source, multi-modal search platform built on Apache Lucene. It powers full-text, vector, and geospatial search at many of the world's largest organizations.
For a complete description of the Solr project, team composition, source code repositories, and other details, please see the Solr web site at https://solr.apache.org/
Downloads for Apache Solr distributions are available at https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html.
The Reference Guide contains an entire Deployment Guide to walk you through installing Solr.
You can run Solr in Docker via the official image. Learn more about Solr in Docker
Solr has official support for running on Kubernetes, in the official Docker image. Please refer to the Solr Operator home for details, tutorials and instructions.
Solr includes a few examples to help you get started. To run a specific example, enter:
bin/solr start -e <EXAMPLE> where <EXAMPLE> is one of:
cloud: SolrCloud example
techproducts: Comprehensive example illustrating many of Solr's core capabilities
schemaless: Schema-less example (schema is inferred from data during indexing)
films: Example of starting with _default configset and adding explicit fields dynamically
For instance, if you want to run the techproducts example, enter:
bin/solr start -e techproducts
For a more in-depth introduction, please check out the tutorials in the Solr Reference Guide.
- Users Mailing List
- Slack: Solr Community Channel. Sign up at https://s.apache.org/solr-slack
- IRC:
#solron libera.chat
Learn more about developing Solr by reading through the developer docs in ./dev-docs source tree or building Solr from source in ./dev-docs/solr-source-code.adoc
Solr uses Gradle for its build system. Here are some useful hints to build and run Solr locally:
- To build a Solr dev distribution:
./gradlew dev
- To run the Solr dev distribution locally:
cd ./solr/packaging/build/dev
bin/solr start
- Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8983/solr/ to access the Solr Admin interface. You can also use the
bin/solrscript to create and manage Solr collections. For example use thebin/solr posttool to index some sample data.
Please review CONTRIBUTING.md for information on contributing to the project.
To get involved in the developer community:
- Mailing Lists
- Slack:
#solr-devin thethe-asforganization. Sign up at https://the-asf.slack.com/messages/CE70MDPMF - Issue Tracker (JIRA)
- IRC:
#solr-devon libera.chat