Apache Solr 4.8 Reference Guide (pdf)
Apache Solr 4.8.0 Documentation
From the documentation page:
Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling, and geospatial search. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of many of the world’s largest internet sites.
Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search server within a servlet container such as Jetty. Solr uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from virtually any programming language. Solr’s powerful external configuration allows it to be tailored to almost any type of application without Java coding, and it has an extensive plugin architecture when more advanced customization is required.
This is the official documentation for Apache Solr 4.8.0.
I haven’t had good experiences with either the “official” Solr documentation or commercial publications on the same.
Not that any of it in particular was wrong so much as it was incomplete. Not that any of it was short. 😉
Perhaps it was more of an organizational problem than anything else.
I will be using the documentation on a regular basis for a while so I will start contributing suggestions as issues arise.
Curious to know if your experience with the Solr documentation has been the same? Different?