I agree with Alexandre, the question is far too broad. Better to pick something you want to _do_ and ask how to accomplish that. Define a use case that's useful for your user base (actual or future) and see if Solr can do that.
See the "books" section here for a number of resources that people have spent inordinate amounts of time creating to allow you to use your time wisely: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html#documentation Best, Erick On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:18 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Glad you liked it. > > The problem with your request is that it is not clear what you already > know and in which direction you are trying to go. Cloud is a big topic > all on its own. Relevancy - another one. Crafting schema to best > represent your data - a third. Loading data with DIH vs. SolrJ vs. 3rd > party client - a fourth. Multilingual content - a fifth. And so on. > > But if you want high level guidelines, I would pick a couple of Solr > books and look at their Tables of Contents. Then, do the same for the > Reference Guide. This should be a good mid-level overview of issues. > > Regards, > Alex. > > ---- > Solr Analyzers, Tokenizers, Filters, URPs and even a newsletter: > http://www.solr-start.com/ > > > On 5 November 2015 at 08:43, Salman Ansari <salman.rah...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks Alex for your response. Much appreciated effort! For sure, I will >> need to look for all those details and information to fully understand Solr >> but I don't have that much time in my hand. That's why I was thinking >> instead of reading everything from the beginning is to start with a feature >> list that briefly explains what each feature does and then dig deeper if I >> need more information. I will appreciate any comments/feedback regarding >> this. >> >> Regards, >> Salman >> >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Well, I've started to answer, but it hit a nerve and turned into a >>> guide. Which is now a blog post with 6 steps (not mentioning step 0 - >>> Admitting you have a problem). >>> >>> I hope this is helpful: >>> http://blog.outerthoughts.com/2015/11/learning-solr-comprehensively/ >>> >>> Regards, >>> Alex. >>> ---- >>> Solr Analyzers, Tokenizers, Filters, URPs and even a newsletter: >>> http://www.solr-start.com/ >>> >>> >>> On 5 November 2015 at 01:08, Salman Ansari <salman.rah...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > I am in the process of looking for a comprehensive list of Solr features >>> in >>> > order to assess how much have we implemented, what are some features that >>> > we were unaware of that we can utilize etc. I have looked at the >>> following >>> > link for Solr features http://lucene.apache.org/solr/features.html but >>> it >>> > looks like it highlights the main features. I also looked at this page >>> > http://www.typo3-solr.com/en/what-is-solr/features/ which gives some >>> > details and I am looking for more of such list and possibly a >>> comprehensive >>> > list that combines them all. >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > Salman >>>
