Hey Jean-Sebastien, Thanks for the reply. It sounds like your experience is exactly what is needed for my project.
To give you some background this project is for a personal project related to biomedical field that I'm trying to get up off the ground. The site is www.antibodyreview.com It is a portal site for researchers in the biotech industry specifically focused on antibodies - not sure how up you may be on biomedical research :) Anyway I have collected a lot of information about proteins and antibodies from various sources which people can search and browse. The site is and will be free to access by anyone. The current search uses MySQL but our requirements for how the site needs to operate cannot be properly handled by MySQL. Searches can take ~8-10 sec and this is clearly not acceptable. If you try the default search on the index page you can see how slow it is. Suggested terms to try: Akt, p53, PTEN, AIF. So there are several different items indexed in solr that we want to search: 1. Protein Information (~42,000 MySQL DB records) 2. Products (expect to host >200,000 product records, currently ~20,000 products) http://www.antibodyreview.com/products.php (current product search is faceted but also takes way too long) 3. Articles (text from ~120,000 articles) Article search can be accessed from the protein pages and advanced search page: http://www.antibodyreview.com/advsearch.php 4. Images (~100,000 image captions) Image search is found on this page http://www.antibodyreview.com/gallery.php The current solr search which has been set-up can be seen on this page: www.antibodyreview.com/proteins3.php (search bar on this page uses solr). It is clearly much faster and meets our needs so it seems clear that using solr is the solution to the search issue. The last programmer mentioned that he had indexed all the data and it is now just a matter of setting up the search queries in solr. The most complicated query to set-up will be the products as it requires faceted search. The other searches are failry routine or have more limited facets/options. If it looks like their is mutual interest I can share with you a document that he created that explains how things have been set-up which should help you get started. Please let me know what you think. Regards, Abe ________________________________ From: Jean-Sebastien Vachon <js.vac...@videotron.ca> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 7:09:06 PM Subject: Re: Looking for help with Solr implementation Hi, If you're still looking for someone, I might be interested in getting more information about your project. From you initial message that does not seem to be a lot of work so I might be willing to give you some time. I've been working with Solr for the last 7 months on my full-time job and I'm currently managing a Solr based project that use Field collapsing, facetting, custom scoring with function queries and a custom query handler. Contact me if you're interested ----- Original Message ----- From: "AC" <acanuc...@yahoo.com> To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 7:43 PM Subject: Looking for help with Solr implementation Hi, Not sure if this is the correct place to post but I'm looking for someone to help finish a Solr install on our LAMP based website. This would be a paid project. The programmer that started the project got too busy with his full-time job to finish the project. Solr has been installed and a basic search is working but we need to configure it to work across the site and also set-up faceted search. I tried posting on some popular freelance sites but haven't been able to find anyone with real Solr expertise / experience. If you think you can help me with this project please let me know and I can supply more details. Regards, Abe