About Solr

Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library. Some of its features include:

• XML/HTTP and JSON APIs
• Hit highlighting
• Faceted search
• Caching
• Replication
• A Web administration interface

In Enterprise, Solr is primarily used in Content Station.

Figure: The Search tab in Content Station, showing the Solr facets on the left of the screen (A).

How is Solr run?

Solr runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat or Jetty (included in the Solr distribution download).