Hi Matt,
Are you looking for a good, general purpose schema and config for Solr?
Well, there's the problem: you need to define what you mean by general
purpose. Every search application will have its own requirements and
they'll be slightly different to every other application. Yes, there
will be some commonalities too. I guess by "as a human might expect one
to behave" you mean "a bit like how Google works" but unfortunately
Google is a poor example: you won't have Google's money or staff or
platform in your company, nor are you likely to be building a
massive-scale web search engine, so at best you can just take
inspiration from it, not replicate it.
In practice, what a lot of people do is start with an example setup
(perhaps from one of the examples supplied with Solr, e.g.
'techproducts') and adapt it: or they might start with the Solr
configset provided by another framework, e.g. Drupal (yay! Pink
Ponies!). Unfortunately the standard example configsets are littered
with comments that say things like 'Here is how you *could* do XYZ but
please don't actually attempt it this way' and other config sections
that if you un-comment them may just get you into further trouble. It's
grown rather than been built, and to my mind there's a good argument for
starting with an absolutely minimal Solr configset and only adding
things in as you need them and understand them (see
https://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/minimal-solrconfig-example-td4322977.html
for some background and a great presentation from Alex Rafalovitch on
the examples).
You're also going to need some background on *why* all these features
should be used, and for that I'd recommend my colleague Doug's book
Relevant Search https://www.manning.com/books/relevant-search - or maybe
our training (quick plug: we're running some online training in a couple
of weeks
https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2020/05/05/tlre-solr-remote/ )
Hope this helps,
Cheers
Charlie
On 20/04/2020 23:43, matthew sporleder wrote:
Is there a comprehensive/big set of tips for making solr into a
search-engine as a human would expect one to behave? I poked around
in the nutch github for a minute and found this:
https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/9e5ae7366f7dd51eaa76e77bee6eb69f812bd29b/src/plugin/indexer-solr/schema.xml
but I was wondering if I was missing a very obvious document
somewhere.
I guess I'm looking for things like:
use suggester here, use spelling there, use DocValues around here, DIY
pagerank, etc
Thanks,
Matt
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