Running with SOLR and Lucene together in Sitecore - solr

Does anybody know how to have Lucene and Solr together in the same Sitecore Instalation?
Sitecore states that is possible here:
https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/setting_up__maintaining/search_and_indexing/indexing/using_solr_or_lucene
You can mix Lucene and Solr, and, for example, use Solr for xDB and
Lucene for content search at the same time. If an index is small, it
is much easier to manage as a Lucene index because there is little to
no overhead to set it up.
But there is no reference on how to configure it.
Any advise is welcome.
Cheers!

In words, your analytic indexes will be using SOLR and your content search indexes will be using Lucene.
To configure your analytic indexes to use SOLR, you can check the following documentation from Sitecore: https://doc.sitecore.net/sitecore_experience_platform/setting_up__maintaining/xdb/configuring_servers/configure_a_processing_server#_Solr_configuration
By default, Sitecore already configured Lucene to be used for Content Search. So, for this, there is no change required.
However, I am not sure that SOLR and Lucene can be used for Content Search or xDB at the same time because of its configuration. For example, the Content Search makes use of the index configuration master, web and core. If you decide to use SOLR for Content Search, you will need to disable the Lucene configuration file from the Include folder.
Thanks

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Can we compare Lucene and Solr index files

We are upgrading Sitecore 8 to 9.3 for that we upgraded Lucene to solr
Can we compare Lucene and Solr index files so that we will be able to know the newly generated solr index files have the same data or not
It seem technically possible as you could use Luke to explore the content of the Lucene index folder.
While Solr data can be queried via either Sitecore UI, or Solr admin.
No. The indexes are very different even though the underlying technology is similar. What I find best is to have an old and new version of the same site with the same data. Then you can compare site search pages and any part of the site that runs on search.

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I am learning solr and want to use solr for stemming words.I'll be passing the word to the solr and it should send the stemmed word back.I know how to configure solr core for different stemming patterns and also i am able to view their stemmed words in the analyzer (solr admin ui) but i am not sure how to achieve this using java code.I am able to index and query using java api.
I am using solr-5.3.0.
If you need to just stem the words I would recommend you not to use the whole Solr. Just use the code they use for stemming or something similar. E.g. you can use
org.apache.lucene.analysis.en.PorterStemmer.stem(String)
Unfortunately PorterStemmer has package level access so I would just copy it from the sources or you can search the Internet for some other stemmer implementations. I hope that helps.
Good luck!

Any good guides for writing custom Riak SOLR search analyzers?

In short, I need to search against my Riak buckets via SOLR. The only problem is, is that by default SOLR searches are case-sensitive. After some digging, I see that I need to write a custom SOLR text analyzer schema. Anyone have any good references for writing search analyzer schemas?
And finally, when installing a new schema for an index, is re-indexing all objects in a bucket necessary to show prior results in a search (using new schema)?
RTFM fail.... I swear though, getting to this page was not easy
http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/dev/advanced/search-schema/#Defining-a-Schema

How to show the contents of files when searching in alfresco

When I am searching for a particular content, it is showing the file which has the content, how can I show the line in which the particular content is there?
I know alfresco uses lucene, can I use lucene highlighter. If yes how to use lucene highlighter in alfresco?
What about solr can I use that?
4.2.e without modifications means that you're using SOLR.
Afaik there is no addon that adds hit-highlighting to Alfresco's Solr search subsystem.
It's on the roadmap.
There are quite some posts regarding hit-lighting in Alfresco based on lucene.
Alfresco 5.2 seems to have this feature. Searched for string is highlighted with context in the search results.

Alfresco 4.1 Search Integration?

I am using alfresco 4.1 & want to integrate it with solr search so that solr can access all alfresco content (keeping in mind authentication etc).
I know solr is inbuilt inside alfresco but i have a solr instance running separately which integrates searches from a number of other sources also such as DBs etc.
Which would be the best way forward?
Regards.
I got one of the way to do it. I can install solr on a separate server & use solrj apis within alfresco for integration.
Programatically, i can dump alfresco content for indexing to solr search using solrj using custom built xml for alfresco contents. Once xml are available to solr, it can be consumed by solr server & can be indexed by it. These indexes would be separate from alfresco OOTB indexes.
Once indexed, it is good to go. Using solr apis, i can search same content in solr server, instead of alfresco plus benefit of integrating multiple content sources with solr so that solr can be used as universal search.
However, when content items go to large volumes, i could see a performance hit as for every content item in alfresco , solr needs to index it. Any workaround possible?
Regards.

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