Solr是解决下述问题的好方法吗？

Question

I am volunteering for a non-profit and the CEO would like an application that stores resumes of University professors. The resumes are to be searchable so that possible employers can find them. The resumes could be in a variety of formats, including pdf or Word.

The Web site is currently based on Joomla!, but may move to Drupal. In either case, the developers are familiar with PHP. I am familiar with PHP as well as Java.

What is the best architecture for this application? I am considering:

1. Installing either the Java or PHP version of SOLR and linking to it through PHP, using the PHP Solr extension.
2. Using the PHP version of Lucene directly and bypassing Solr.
3. Use the Search Lucene API Drupal extension, which provides Solr-like functionality.

If I have left any possibilities out, please let me know.

Also, I couldn't find a good book on Solr on Amazon. There is a good one on Lucene, though (the In Action series). Unfortunately, it only briefly mentions Solr. Is it worthwhile reading a good book on Lucene in order to understand how to use Solr better, or would I be wasting my time/money? I also couldn't find any good books on Solr...but maybe you can recommend one.

Answer 1

Based on what you have explained, no Solr is not a good match.

You would be more than capable of being able to do fulltext searching through mysql if you needed. The fact that you mention Joomla and Drupal obviously point to that as being the RDMS that you are using.

If I were to start this project from afresh, I would probably use some noSQL engine, something like MongoDB to create my Resume Documents. www.mongodb.com

That is how I would persist my data.

If it then comes to wanting to search the documents, I would only consider using Solr if I expect to have thousands of tens of thousands of searchs a day. It really doesn't require the effort of implementing a Solr application if you only expect 100-1000 searches a day.

And, to answer you book question on Solr, the book which I own and would recommend, is http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/book but I'm sure you could probably find something a little more recent. I bought that like 18-24 months ago.

You first would want to store the details of each person... so