Solr Overview
In general, Solr can be used in any kind of web application which requires search functionality.
- Vertical search engines
- Searching within a website
- Intranet and document management applications
- Database-driven e-commerce websites
- Facet Search
- Auto Suggest
- Range Query
- Pivot Search
- Similarity Search
Solr's search features include support for:
- boolean query syntax (AND, OR, NOT)
- phrase, date and numeric range searches
- search result highlighting
- faceted search
- database integration
- searching of binary documents such as Word and PDF
- spatial search
- distributed search and index replication
