Before we delve into the technical details, what's the big picture?  What real-world challenges are made better with these new Solr capabilities?   Here's some use cases where payloads can help: per-store pricing weighted terms, such as the confidence or importance... Read More

Tutorial and examples of query-time support for multi-word synonyms in Apache Solr with the eDismax and standard/Lucene query parsers. Read More

As of release 5.2, Solr comes out-of-the-box with both authentication and authorization APIs, allowing you to define users, roles and permissions, using the RuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin and the BasicAuthPlugin.  That's the good news.  The not-as-good-news is that these plug-ins, while powerful, are... Read More