With the intense interest in big data and the growing complexity of Apache Solr applications, application developers, business professionals, and end-users alike are clamoring for a more in-depth look at Apache Lucene and Solr. This comprehensive one-stop guide helps you gain a thorough understanding of Lucene's underlying architecture so you can design, implement, and tune successful Solr applications. High-speed inverted indexes are inherently difficult to develop. That's why more and more enterprises are implementing the Solr search server and Lucene Core search technology for complex text retrieval, as a NoSQL system for big data, or as a replacement for relational database systems that require horizontal scalability. With this guide's complete coverage of both Lucene and Solr, you'll get a unified view of their value and applicability to your big data projects. Learn how Lucene works from the inside out Get examples for using both Lucene and Solr APIs Configure Solr for optimal production use Learn how to use Solr with Hadoop