Solr + Magnolia CMS

What Solr offers

Solr is an open-source search platform built on Apache Lucene, designed for high-performance, scalable, and reliable search and indexing. It is widely used for enterprise search applications, enabling organizations to manage and query large volumes of structured and unstructured data efficiently. Solr provides full-text search capabilities, faceted navigation, and real-time indexing, making it an ideal solution for applications that require fast and accurate search results.

One of its key strengths is its advanced querying features, including complex filtering, keyword highlighting, and relevance tuning. Solr supports a variety of data types and formats, allowing users to store and search across text, numeric, geospatial, and document-based data. It also provides distributed search capabilities through sharding and replication, ensuring scalability and fault tolerance in large-scale deployments.

With its built-in schema flexibility, Solr can handle dynamic data structures, making it adaptable to various business needs. It supports powerful analytics through aggregations and result grouping, which help users extract insights from large datasets. Solr is often used in e-commerce, digital publishing, and enterprise content management systems to provide fast and efficient search experiences.

Integration with big data and machine learning frameworks further enhances Solr’s capabilities, allowing businesses to build intelligent search applications. Its robust security features, including authentication, authorization, and encryption, ensure that sensitive data remains protected. With a strong community and extensive documentation, Solr remains a popular choice for organizations looking to implement scalable and customizable search solutions.

Install the official magnolia module

The easiest way to add solr to your website is by adding the magnolia module and configure the solr instance accordingly. You could either push content from magnolia into the solr index or otherwise scan with solr from outside every time a page is published or unpublished. 

There is a very precise Solr Module documentation.