What is the use of Solr in Sitecore?
Sitecore Solr is an indexing technology. Sitecore supports two search engines, Lucene and Solr which are used to search Sitecore’s content and operational databases.
How does Sitecore Search work?
Search API when configuring Sitecore Search or Lucene search indexes. Sitecore maintains indexes by scanning items in Sitecore databases. Every time you update, create or delete an item Sitecore runs a job that updates the indexes. The process is usually complete by the time you have saved or published an item.
How does populate Solr conflict with Sitecore?
Here’s a first finding: It can conflict with the Populate Solr Managed Schema command, as it’ll list all you indexes and let you update them all at once. This may result in a race condition, as Sitecore will send multiple commands to update the schema, for multiple indexes, that are sharing the same schema.
Is Sitecore 9.2 compatible with Solr 7.5.0?
Sitecore 9.2 is known to be compatible with Solr 7.5.0. Other combinations may or may not work. See Sitecore’s Solr Compatibility Table for further information. Once you create your deployment, you will see it in the Solr Deployments dashboard.
Why do I get a success message in Sitecore?
You’ll get a “success”-message in Sitecore regardless if your update snippets are correct and stored in Solr or not. So make sure you read the managed schema file in the Solr UI to verify that the changes have actually been stored. Sitecore may show a success message even when the managed schema update are not applied in Solr.
What kind of cluster is needed for Sitecore 9.2?
Sitecore will work with a single-node deployment (the “NDN” series of Managed Solr deployments) for purposes of testing and evaluation. However, a production system requires a Managed Solr cluster (the “NDC” series) to provide high-availability and failover features. Sitecore 9.2 is known to be compatible with Solr 7.5.0.