With the intense interest in big data and the growing complexity of Apache Solr applications, application developers, business professionals, and end-users alike are clamoring for a more in-depth look at Apache Lucene and Solr. This comprehensive one-stop guide helps you gain a thorough understanding of Lucene's underlying architecture so you can design, implement, and tune successful Solr applications.

High-speed inverted indexes are inherently difficult to develop. That's why more and more enterprises are implementing the Solr search server and Lucene Core search technology for complex text retrieval, as a NoSQL system for big data, or as a replacement for relational database systems that require horizontal scalability. With this guide's complete coverage of both Lucene and Solr, you'll get a unified view of their value and applicability to your big data projects.
* Learn how Lucene works from the inside out
* Get examples for using both Lucene and Solr APIs
* Configure Solr for optimal production use
* Learn how to use Solr with Hadoop