Application Of Solr In E-commerce Website

With the development and popularization of Internet, e-commerce has become a new business model. In recent years, many online stores suddenly rise. The business competition has intensified, Grasping the real needs of users become the key of winning. In order to meet customer demand, the enterprise meets an urgent need for information retrieval systems of their own.At present there are mainly three kinds of solving the internal search requirement. Solution one is develop a totally new search engine that based on the existing theory, this solution is flexible enough, but it needs high cost and long development cycle. Another solution is to extend the existing open source framework to meet the search requirements, this solution is cost saving, and easy to maintain; another one is using the interface provided by Google, baidu, this method is relatively simple, but is not flexible enough.In many open source search engine, solr is a popular and fast enterprise search platform. It provides a comprehensive set of enterprise information retrieval solution and can be easily integrated into the enterprise’s own information systems.in recent years solr has been widely applied in enterprise information retrieval.Based on existing open source project solr, relying on the actual needs of large-scale e-commerce sites who sales fashion apparel, this topic talks about how to customize enterprise information retrieval systems by changing the default solr implements and extend solr interface. And then base on this search engine we develop the callable interface of the enterprise applications. The retrieval system becomes the main channel for users to access the entire commodity information. It brings the actual profits to the enterprise, so the whole project has important practical significance in real life.This topic consists of four parts:1. Build solr server cluster, index information for databases and ensure data consistency across the cluster.2.Select the appropriate Chinese word segmentation strategy, by comparing the advantages and disadvantages of various segmentation methods and practical results.3. Depending on the application design the user inputs prompts.4. Develop application interfaces based on the search system, and realize enterprise specific search logic.