Integrate Apache Solr search results with enterprise data with Teiid

Apache Solr is a full text search engine built on top of Apache Lucene for indexing and searching any data contents. This is been widely used by many organisations for their searching needs.

Typically when a user wants to use Apache Solr, they will configure an instance of Apache Solr or SolrCloud with relevant indexing fields and publish all their data/documents that instance to be indexed. Once the documents are indexed, they can use Solr APIs to search the documents and use it for their purposes. This is where I believe Teiid can help ease the uploading of the enterprise data and with integration of search results with other data sources.

Starting with Teiid 8.7.Alpha1, Teiid provides translator for Apache Solr. Using this translator, user can 

1. Continually add/update the documents in the search system from other sources automatically.
2. If the search fields are stored in Solr system, this can be used as very low latency data retrieval for serving high traffic applications
3. Solr translator be used as fast full text search, where the Solr document only contained the index information, then use the results as inverted index to gather target full documents from the other enterprise sources such as RDBMS, Web Service, SalesForce etc, all in single client call transparently with out any coding.

To illustrate this integration in an example I wrote this article, please read on.. Integrate Apache Solr with Teiid

Let us know if you have any comments or questions in Teiid forums.

Thanks.

Ramesh..