Solr 8 Tutorial This is a simple Solr tutorial designed to get your feet wet. This tutorial was verified with Solr 8, but may work on older versions as well. 1. Download Solr Download and unpack the latest Solr release from the Apache download mirrors. You may want to check […]
solr search
Here’s an overview of some of the new features in Solr 6.2. Download Solr 6.2 to try these features out and give us feedback! You can also check out upcoming features of the next Solr release. Boolean Comparison Function Queries Function queries for comparisons of numeric arguments: gt – greater […]
Solr 6.2 Features
Here’s an overview of some of the new features in Solr 6.3. Download Solr 6.3 to try these features out and give us feedback! You can also check out upcoming features of the next Solr release. New dvhash faceting method in the JSON Facet API A new faceting method for […]
Solr 6.3 Features
Here’s an overview of some of the new features in Solr 7.0 Download Solr 7 to try these features out and give us feedback! Point Numeric Fields The now deprecated trie-based numeric fields use (and abuse) the full-text index to index parts of numbers to speed up range queries. […]
Solr 7 Features
Here’s an overview of some of the new features in Solr 5.3 Also see Solr Download Links and upcoming Features of the next Solr release. Faceting Nested Documents The JSON Facet API can now change the domain for facet commands, essentially doing a block join and moving from parents to […]
Solr 5.3 Features
Related Pages Facet Functions Sub-Facets Multi-Select Faceting Nested Documents / Block Join Faceting Facet Performance Benchmarks Introduction Solr 5 has a completely re-written faceted search and analytics module with a structured JSON API to control the faceting and analytics commands. NOTE: Some examples use syntax only supported in later Solr […]
JSON Facet API
Subfacets (also called Nested Facets) is a more generalized form of Solr’s current pivot faceting that allows adding additional facets for every bucket produced by a parent facet. Subfacet advantages over pivot faceting: Subfacets work with facet functions (statistics), enabling powerful real-time analytics Can add a subfacet to any facet […]
Solr Subfacets

Solr 5.1 has been released! Here’s an overview of how to use some of the new features. Also see Solr download links and upcoming features of the next Solr release. New Facet Module The new facet module has a native JSON Facet API, first-class support for statistics and analytics via […]
Solr 5.1 Features
Here’s an overview of some of the new features in Solr 5.2 Also see Solr download links and upcoming features of the next Solr release. Solr caches can be limited by memory use Caches using the LRUCache implementation can specify a new parameter maxRamMB that will evict based on RAM […]