Hi Alex, What's the title of your book? An amazon link would be useful too.
Thanks! Rob On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Definitely 5.x. Lots of new goodies. It is true that some of the > startup scripts are different and the example schemas could be > slightly confusing if following a book, but I think it is well worth > starting on a good foot. Just remember, no "collection1" anymore, all > cores/collections are explicit. And there are tutorial and reference > guide available to help you along. > > And "Solr in Action" is a great book to purchase. Though, I'd > recommend an electronic copy unless you want an exercise regime as > well :-) > > I would say grab my book as well if you just want step by step > introduction, but frankly it is definitely out of date (Solr 4.3!) and > publisher pushed the price up into the ridiculous territory last time > I checked. So, don't buy it. But if you have O'Reilly Safari account > of some other ways to get to it, give it a glance too. > > Regards, > Alex. > ---- > Solr Analyzers, Tokenizers, Filters, URPs and even a newsletter: > http://www.solr-start.com/ > > > On 23 October 2015 at 14:22, Robert Hume <rhum...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm investigating installing a new Solr deployment to be able to search > > about two million documents (mostly HTML and PDF). > > > > QUESTIONS: > > > > A. Should I use Solr 4.x or 5.x? My concerns are mostly to do with > > support. Is 5.x too new to be able to get good answers and advice from > the > > community? Or should I stick with the latest 4.x release? > > > > B. Anyone have a good book recommendation? I was thinking of buying > "Solr > > In Action" but it looks like it was published in April 2014 so it won't > > have any 5.x info in it? > > > > Thanks! > > Rob >
