oslo enterprise meetup may 12th 2010 - jan høydahl
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Presentation held at Oslo Enterprise MeetUp in May, pitched towards an audience who come from the FAST ESP side and have some existing FAST knowledge. Check out one of my other presentations if you're most familiar with Lucene/Solr.TRANSCRIPT
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Migrating FAST to SolrBy Jan Høydahl
Oslo Enterprise Search MeetUp May 2010
Enterprise Search Specialists
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Jan Høydahl
● IT architect - search, telecom, mobile
● Helped build FAST's Global Services as first engineer
● Founder of Cominvent AS● Search consultant 10 years
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Consulting
– Cominvent delivers independent search consulting– Focus on Apache Lucene/Solr & Microsoft FAST ESP
Idea –> architecture –> implementation
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Commercial Support (Solr/Lucene)
– When community & mailing list support is not enough..– Paid support agreement for Apache Solr/Lucene– In cooperation with Lucid Imagination
– Read more: http://www.cominvent.com/support/
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Training
– Cominvent AS delivers training public and on-site– Certified Solr Training Partner for Lucid Imagination– Certified FAST ESP Training Partner
– Read more: http://www.cominvent.com/training/
Photo: fluidpowerzone.com
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Solr kurs
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FAST & Solr are very similar...
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Areas of usage
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Common features
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Common features
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Introduction to...
...for FAST people
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Apache Solr - characteristics
(Commercially friendly)
Search server
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Apache Solr - characteristics
Modular Community
Light weightContributions & patches
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Solr-user community growth
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Lucene/Solr deployments
– More: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers
Thanks to Lucid Imagination for logo collection
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Solr Architecture
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The Apache Software Foundation
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Other ASF Lucene sub-projects
– Lucene Java library
– Rich document extraction
– Crawling web pages
– Machine learning• Classification/clustering• Collaborative filtering...
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Introduction to...
...for Solr people
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FAST ESP – characteristics & key strengths
Connectors
Security
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FAST ESP – characteristics & key strengths
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FAST ESP – characteristics & key strengths
FormatConversion
LanguageDetection Entities
Linguistic Normalization
OntologyCustomPlug-in
AlertSearch
Taxonomy Sentiment
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– Very strong document processing framework
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FAST ESP architecture
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The migration...
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Migration objectives
– Possible objectives include:• Lower maintenance cost• Deeper in-house competency• Less dependent on external consultants• Ownership and visibility of source code• Shorter time to market for new features• Bugs fixed faster – or even fix ourselves• Larger community, mailing lists that work!• More choice in external consultants• Contribute back to Open Source• Lower HW footprint
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Migration steps
– Knowledge gathering & Training– Review current features & arch
• Want to keep all features? Add new?
– Migration areas:• Index profile• Content• Feeding• Document Processing• Querying• Search middleware?• Admin & Operational
– What to do in Application space vs Search space?
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Feature comparison ESP – Solr (similarities)
Feature ESP Solr
Full-text, boolean, range search, sorting, sub-second, facets, did-you-mean, synonyms, faceting
Yes Yes
Scaling for QPS Add rows Add rows
Scaling for document volume Add columns Add shards
Synonyms Index/query side Index/query side
GEO search Yes Yes (1.5)
Boolean query language Yes (FQL) Yes (Lucene or(e)DisMax)
APIs HTTP, Java, .NET, C++, PHP
HTTP, Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, JS
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Feature comparison ESP – Solr (differences)
Feature ESP Solr
Admin server Yes No (coming 1.5)
Processes Many (C++, Java, Python)
One WAR in Java app-server, 100% Java
Navigators / Facets Index-time Query-time
Did-you-mean Dictionary based Dictionary or index based
Feeding API only HTTP POST or API
Document processing Pipeline (py) Simple pipeline (Java, JS, Groovy, Jython, JRuby..)
Multi field querying Composite fields DisMax handler
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Feature comparison ESP – Solr (differences)
Feature ESP Solr
Relevancy tuning Rank profiles, term boosting
Dynamic function queries and boost functions
XRANK XRANK operator Function Queries
Freshness boost Freshness in rank profile
Function Queries
Boost GEO distance Rank profile and special
Function Queries
Major schema or software updates Cold update, use stage environment
Stage new content into new Solr core
Pluggability Docprocs, QT/RP (limited), clients
Everything :)Request Handlers, Query Parsers, Docprocs, Rank, Spell, tokenizer++
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Feature comparison ESP – Solr (differences)
Feature ESP Solr
Lemmatization Can be licensed for many languages
Can be licensed from 3rd party
Query syntax and(a:foo, b:bar)i:range(0, 100)
d:range(2000-01-01T00:00:00, 2010-03-03T12:00:00)
a:foo OR b:barI:[0 TO 100]
d:[2000-01-01T00:00:00Z TO NOW]
Query params query=offset=hits=spell=1
q=start=rows=spellcheck=true
What fields to return view=viewname fl=title,price,body...
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Feature comparison ESP – Solr (differences)
Feature ESP Solr
Search XML hierarchy Yes, scope search No
Reports Built in analytics Use 3rd party log analysis such as Splunk.com
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Your existing FAST system - overview
Search middleware?
Your web-app
Graphics diagram: www.microsoft.com
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Migrating index profile
– ESP index profile -> Solr schema.xml– Setup field types, use defaults or create your own– Setup the static fields. ESP:
– Solr equivalent:
– No need for generic*, use dynamic fields:
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Migrating index profile
– Composite fields?• Solr can use <copyField> to copy multiple fields into
one, e.g. as we did to map many attributes into one field
• However, to achieve ranking with different boost of each field, Solr does not need composite field. Use DisMax query handler instead. Very powerful!
– No need to edit schema to add new fields. Using dynamic fields, it is easy to e.g. Introduce a color facet for cars or a Mpixels facet for digital cameras
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DisMax query example
– This Solr query can replace use of composite-field• qt=dismax• q=oslo• qf=title^0.7 highpriorityfields^1.5
mediumpriorityfields^0.6 lowpriorityfields^0.2 recallfields^0.0 body^0.0
• bf=recip(rord(creationDate),1,1000,1000)
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Migrating content
– If using FAST ContentAPI to push programatically• Use Solr's clients (Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, PHP...)
– If feeding FastXML using FileTraverser• Feed as Solr XML using HTTP POST or a POST client
– If you feed custom XML with XMLMapper• Have a look at DIH's import and mapping features
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Push Feeding example
– Feed XML using HTTP POST:• curl http://localhost:8080/solr/update?commit=true
-H "Content-Type: text/xml" --data-binary @mydoc.xml
– Ruby example:• >gem sources -a http://gemcutter.org
>sudo gem install rsolrrequire 'rsolr'solr = RSolr.connect :url=>'http://localhost:8080' documents = [{:id=>1, :price=>1.00},
{:id=>2, :price=>10.50}]solr.add documentssolr.commit
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Pull: DataImportHandler (DIH)
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Querying examples
– http://localhost:8080/solr/select?q=car&fl=id,title
– Ruby• res=solr.select :q=>'roses', :fq=>['red','white']
res['response']['docs'].each do |doc| puts doc['title']end
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Migrating document processing
– Solr lacks a sophisticated pipeline with entity extraction etc. Alternatives:
• Do extraction in Application space (Ruby)• Write own stage in Solr pipeline for simple cases• Integrate to do more advanced stuff
– Matchers/extractors• LingPipe NamedEntityExtractor inside of OpenPipeline
– Synonyms:• Use Solr's synonym handling index/query side
– Custom stages:• Write a Solr UpdateProcessor (in Java, Jython etc)
– Got a LOT of custom FAST docproc stages?• Have a look at SESAT's PY ProcServer for Solr (GPL)
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Migrating linguistics (lemmatization)
– Solr ships with Stemming instead of Lemmatization– Stemming has limitations
• Biler, bilen, bilene -> bilBUT
• Bøker, bøkene -> bøk; boka, bok -> bok
– Kstem better. Free with LucidWorks for Solr– If you need singular/plural handling only
• Free dictionaries? Check lucene-hunspell
– Lemmatization can be licensed from 3rd party such as Basistech, who also has language identification & entity extraction
– Language identification also from Sematext
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Basistech Rosette for Lucene
– High-end linguistics capabilities for19 languages
– Language Identification– Segmentation and tokenization– Lemmatization– Noun decompounding– Part-of-speech tagging– Entity extraction
– Easily integrated with Lucene/Solr
– More: http://www.basistech.com/lucene/
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Migrating search middleware
– Using FAST Unity?• Consider migrating middleware logic such as external
source querying and federation to SESAT (AGPL)
– Using Comperio Front?• Ask Comperio for Solr engine support• Or migrate custom Q&R formats
– Or is plain Solr enough?• Solr has built-in support for shards• A shard query will query multiple shards
and merge the results into one• Add custom processing as Query
Components in Solr• Check contrib & patches!
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Migrating Front ends
– Using a middleware with Solr support? Lucky you!– If not, consider introducing one now. Look at (Java):
– If you decide to migrate from FAST Java/.NET APIs• Choose SolrJ or SolrNET• Query language differences. &fq= instead of filter()• Solr facets do not require sessions/state as FAST's
– Migrate fast's «views» into named ReqHandler configs– Multi lingual: Need to handle title_no, title_en etc... :(
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Migrating Web Crawler
– Solr has no built-in web crawler• Instead you can choose from several integrations
– The Apache Nutch crawler• Proven with hundreds of millions of pages• http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/03/09/nutch-solr/
– Apache Droids• Still an incubator, but aims at becoming a full crawler• http://incubator.apache.org/droids/
– Heritix + Solr (example in Solr1.4 book)– OpenPipeline has a (very) simple crawler– Lucene Connectors Framework
• Preparing crawler support
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Migrating Connectors
– Solr handles these sources internally through DIH:• Database, RSS, Web-services, Local filesystem
– Additionally throgh Lucene Connectors Framework:•
• EMC Documentum, FileNet, JDBC, LiveLink, Patriarch (Memex), Meridio, SharePoint, RSS
• New connectors should be written for LCF
– Another option:•• Sharepoint, IMAP, Documentum, Vignette, Filesystem
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Operations
– Solr has no admin-server (coming in 1.5)– Possible to run multiple Tomcat on same server– Multiple cores in same Tomcat – easier migration– No built-in query reports, use 3rd party tools– No built-in monitoring, have a look at
– Log analysis? Check out
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More info
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Thank You
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