Apache Solr is an open-source, REST API-based search platform built on Apache Lucene Framework. It is also called “Searching On Lucene w/Replication.” Written in Java Language, Apache Solr is designed for scalability and fault tolerance. Solr is enterprise-ready, fast, and highly scalable, making it ideal for use in search-based and big data analytics applications. In simple terms, Solr is a ready-to-deploy search engine that is optimized to search large volumes of text-centric data.
In this post, we will show you how to install Apache Solr on Oracle Linux 8.