Apache Solr

In this webinar Thomas Seidl (aka Drunkenmonkey) will show how you can turbocharge your Search API Solr Search setup with Visitors Voice Free - a new SaaS that lets you add, remove and reorder the hits exactly the way you want them. Thomas will also answer to questions you might have regarding Search API in general.

The Problem

The search community is fragmented. The problem stems from a core search module that doesn't facilitate third party backends, so each project is forced to solve similar problems in slightly different ways. Each contributed module has its own isolated sub-community, which is detrimental to Drupal as a whole.

Hi,

I ve coded a couple of modules based on search api.
The goal is to provide a page like the default "Find content" but on top of scalable technology for sites with huge amounts of nodes.

Extended Search Page
Create custom search page with index filters.
So this module support solr and mysql through Search API and uses entity metadata to discover objects fields.

Extended Search Admin
Replace the default content admin overview with an extended search page.

I ve tested the module against a solr index : that does the job !

My organization loves the interface that the Faceted Search module provides. However, we are trying to transition away from the module to use Apache Solr since Faceted Search is so taxing on the database.

We have pages that have custom Faceted Search environments on them that display the taxonomy facets, and a count of how many nodes there are for each taxonomy term. See an example at http://www.urbanministry.org/volunteer/volunteer-search. (The page takes a while to load; that's the main reason we'd like to switch.)