Solr is the blazing-fast, open source, multi-modal search platform built on Apache Lucene. It powers full-text, vector, and geospatial search at many of the world's largest organizations.

For a complete description of the Solr project, team composition, source code repositories, and other details, please see the Solr web site at https://solr.apache.org/

Downloads for Apache Solr distributions are available at https://solr.apache.org/downloads.html.

The Reference Guide contains an entire Deployment Guide to walk you through installing Solr.

You can run Solr in Docker via the official image. Learn more about Solr in Docker

Solr has official support for running on Kubernetes, in the official Docker image. Please refer to the Solr Operator home for details, tutorials and instructions.

Solr includes a few examples to help you get started. To run a specific example, enter:

  bin/solr start -e <EXAMPLE> where <EXAMPLE> is one of:
    cloud:         SolrCloud example
    techproducts:  Comprehensive example illustrating many of Solr's core capabilities
    schemaless:    Schema-less example (schema is inferred from data during indexing)
    films:         Example of starting with _default configset and adding explicit fields dynamically    

For instance, if you want to run the techproducts example, enter:

  bin/solr start -e techproducts

For a more in-depth introduction, please check out the tutorials in the Solr Reference Guide.

• Users Mailing List
• Slack: #solr-dev channel in the ASF Slack workspace
• IRC: #solr on libera.chat

Learn more about developing Solr by reading through the developer docs in ./dev-docs source tree or building Solr from source in ./dev-docs/solr-source-code.adoc

Solr uses Gradle for its build system. Here are some useful hints to build and run Solr locally:

• To build a Solr dev distribution:

./gradlew dev

• To run the Solr dev distribution locally:

cd ./solr/packaging/build/dev
bin/solr start

• Open a web browser and go to http://localhost:8983/solr/ to access the Solr Admin interface. You can also use the bin/solr script to create and manage Solr collections. For example use the bin/solr post tool to index some sample data.

Please review CONTRIBUTING.md for information on contributing to the project.

To get involved in the developer community:

• Mailing Lists
• Slack: #solr-dev in the the-asf organization. Sign up at https://the-asf.slack.com/messages/CE70MDPMF
• Issue Tracker (JIRA)
• IRC: #solr-dev on libera.chat