Apache Solr 5.0 Highlights by Anshum Gupta.
From the post:
Usability improvements
A lot of effort has gone into making Solr more usable, mostly along the lines of introducing APIs and hiding implementation details for users who don’t need to know. Solr 4.10 was released with scripts to start, stop and restart Solr instance, 5.0 takes it further in terms of what can be done with those. The scripts now for instance, copy a configset on collection creation so that the original isn’t changed. There’s also a script to index documents as well as the ability to delete collections in Solr. As an example, this is all you need to do to start SolrCloud, index lucidworks.com, browse through what’s been indexed, and clean up the collection.
bin/solr start -e cloud -noprompt
bin/post -c gettingstarted http://lucidworks.com
open http://localhost:8983/solr/gettingstarted/browse
bin/solr delete -c gettingstartedAnother important thing to note for new users is that Solr no longer has the default collection1 and instead comes with multiple example config-sets and data.
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That is just a tiny part of Gupta’s post on just highlights of Apache Solr 5.0.
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