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SOLR

Presented by: Rob Miller, Jason Grim & Ryan

Street

08/15/2012

Optimizing SOLR to Improve Search

About Crown

!  Certified Magento Development Team

!  SOLR experts in Advanced Search

!  Integration between SOLR and Magento, ERP

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Agenda

!  Overview of SOLR

!  Basic Solr Troubleshooting

–  Common SOLR Troubleshooting and Solutions

!  Advanced optimization of search results

–  Making changes in Solr configuration to better your results.

!  Improving search speed

–  Optimizing to improve search speed.

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Crown’s First SOLR Webinar

!  Crown’s SOLR 1.0 Webinar

–  Support for Spelling/Synonyms/Stop Words

–  Improved Layered Navigation

–  September 21, 2011

–  http://bit.ly/solrmagentowebinar

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Basic

Troubleshooting

Useful SOLR Tools

!  Web Interface

!  Luke

!  Command Line

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Magento Cannot Connect to SOLR

!  Do you have the right URL and Port?

!  Does Your server communicate SOLR and Magento?

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Magento and Solr Show Bad or No Results

!  Bad Data

!  Change from Final to Partial Commit

!  Look into the command line for critical errors during index

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Where to find more answers…

! Magento Forums

–  http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/

! Magento Answers

–  http://www.magentocommerce.com/answers/welcome

!  Dr. Gento

–  http://www.drgento.com

!  And of course… Crown!

–  http://www.crownpartners.com/

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Advanced

Optimization

of Search

Results

Configuration: Minimum Must Match

!  Must Match Formats

–  2

–  75%

–  2<-25%

–  2<-1 5<80%

!  Setting is language specific

!  Will NOT require Reindex (Query time parameter)

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Query Boosting Results

!  Boost individual product attributes

!  Query time configuration

!  Language specific

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Where to Find More Answers

!  Apache’s Wiki

–  http://wiki.apache.org/solr/

!  Dr. Gento

–  http://www.drgento.com

!  And of course… Crown!

–  http://www.crownpartners.com/

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Improving

Search

Speed

SOLR and Magento Relationship

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!  User submits a search query

! Magento connects to SOLR and sends over query

!  SOLR processes query and returns Magento Product IDs

! Magento loads the product IDs and displays them to the user

Is SOLR the Problem?

!  Check qtime of a query

–  /select params={…} hits=79 status=0 QTime=48

! Solr Performance Enhancements

–  http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrPerformanceFactors

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MySQL Optimization

!  Update your version of MySQL to the latest version

!  Make sure your MySQL settings are tuned per Magento’s recommendations

–  http://www.magentocommerce.com/whitepaper/

!  Using the Memory (HEAP) Storage Engine for Temp Tables

–  http://dev.mysql.com/doc//refman/5.0/en/memory-storage-engine.html

!  Leverage MySQL query caching

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Where to Find More Answers

! Magento Forums

–  http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/

! Magento U Performance and Optimization for System Administrators

–  http://www.magentocommerce.com/services/training

!  Dr. Gento

–  http://www.drgento.com

!  And of course… Crown!

–  http://www.crownpartners.com/

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Questions?

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Thank You!

Rob Miller rmiller@crownpartners.com

Jason Grim

jgrim@crownpartners.com

Ryan Street rstreet@crownpartners.com

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