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Beyond the Solr Eclipse Building blazing fast Drupal 8 search with Solr and no code TANAY SAI Technical Services Manager Acquia India www.tanay.co.in @saitanay JAYAKRISHNAN JAYABAL Technical Architect Acquia India @jayakrishnanjay

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Beyond the Solr Eclipse

Building blazing fast Drupal 8 search with Solr and no code

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TANAY SAI

Technical Services Manager Acquia India

www.tanay.co.in @saitanay

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JAYAKRISHNAN JAYABAL

Technical Architect Acquia India

@jayakrishnanjay

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Modules/Software Used

  • Drupal 8
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_solr
  • https://www.drupal.org/project/facets
  • Solarium (Required by Search API)

○ composer require solarium/solarium

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What is Solr?

  • an open source search platform
  • built upon a Java library called Lucene
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Who uses Solr?

From http://lucene.apache.org/solr/

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Problems with Core Search Why do we need it in place of database search?

  • Slow especially with a large number of nodes
  • Features like Stemming, Highlighting, Spell check missing or

tricky to accomplish

  • Queries on Phrases don’t work great, compared to solr
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Apachesolr

“fast access to big data on a budget”

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Options available for hosting Solr

  • Acquia Search - Bundled with Acquia Cloud
  • www.hostedapachesolr.com
  • www.measuredsearch.com
  • Fairly simple to spin up your own solr instance
  • n AWS alongside your webserver
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Search API Solr vs Apache Solr D7 & D8

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What is a server? What is an index?

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Adding a Server….

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Building the Index..

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Building the View..

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Building the Search Box..

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Building “Phone Finder”

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1) Check index - See all fields 2) Create View - display results only 3) Enable Facets module 4) Create “Brand” Facet 5) Place the block 6) Create “Price” Exposed filter 7) Place the block 8) Create “Features” Facet 9) Place the block

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  • drupal:8.3.1
  • search_api:8.x-1.0-rc2 (Latest : 8.x-1.0 released on April 26))
  • search_api_solr:8.x-1.0-beta2 (Latest : beta2)
  • facets:1.0.0-alpha9 (Latest)

Module Compatibility

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More modules in the ecosystem..

https://www.drupal.org/project/search_api_attachments - In Beta

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Work in Progress..

  • Autocomplete - Needs work
  • Multilingual - Needs work
  • Spell Check / “Did you mean..” - In Sandbox - Needs work
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Our small work on D7 Apachesolr

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www.d8cards.com

Also Checkout..

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Questions?

Jayakrishnan Jayabal @jayakrishnanj jayakrishnan.jayabal@acquia.com Tanay Sai @saitanay www.tanay.co.in tanay.sai@acquia.com @ Acquia Booth - Between 2PM-3PM today Site Building Videos available at http://bit.ly/beyondsolr