Like any new Apache project, it entered an incubation period which helped solve organizational, legal, and financial issues. In January 2006, CNET Networks decided to openly publish the source code by donating it to the Apache Software Foundation. In 2004, Solr was created by Yonik Seeley at CNET Networks as an in-house project to add search capability for the company website. Solr's external configuration allows it to be tailored to many types of applications without Java coding, and it has a plugin architecture to support more advanced customization.Īpache Solr is developed in an open, collaborative manner by the Apache Solr project at the Apache Software Foundation.

It uses the Lucene Java search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has REST-like HTTP/ XML and JSON APIs that make it usable from most popular programming languages. Solr runs as a standalone full-text search server. Solr is widely used for enterprise search and analytics use cases and has an active development community and regular releases. Providing distributed search and index replication, Solr is designed for scalability and fault tolerance. Its major features include full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, real-time indexing, dynamic clustering, database integration, NoSQL features and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling.

Solr (pronounced 'solar') is an open-source enterprise-search platform, written in Java.

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