Querqy, a rule-based Solr query preprocessor & SQL in Solr 6

René Kriegler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ren%C3%A9-kriegler-49b6275/) is our first speaker : ‘Managing Search Relevancy in Solr using the Querqy open source library’
Solr provides a number of features, like synonym files and the query elevation component, to manage search relevancy. However, Solr still cannot completely keep up with some of the commercial search software products in this field. For example, moving documents that contain a certain, query-dependent term to the top/bottom of the search result list, query-dependent filters, and query-time synonyms are common search management features of commercial search solutions but they are either missing or problematic in Solr.

The Querqy (https://github.com/renekrie/querqy) library was created to overcome these problems in the context of migrating an e-commerce search application from a commercial search engine to Solr. While Querqy has been developed with Solr in mind, its core - a query rewriting framework - could also be applied to other Java-based search engines.

René Kriegler (https://twitter.com/renekrie) has worked as a search consultant for ten years, mainly focussing on Solr/Lucene-based solutions for clients in Germany and abroad. He has a background in software development and linguistics. René maintains the Querqy (https://github.com/renekrie/querqy) open source library.

Our second talk is from Michael Suzuki (https://twitter.com/suzukimichael). Michael is an engineer with more than 15 years experience in software development. He is currently a member of Alfresco Search Service and a contributor to the Apache Solr project. Michael loves solving complex problems and writing performant code.

He'll be talking about SQL in Solr 6 . One of the new upcoming capabilities in Alfresco Search Services is the inclusion of Solr JDBC. This feature was introduced in Solr 6.3 and provides the ability to interact with Solr using SQL. In this presentation we will explore when and how to use SQL in Solr.

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Talks will start at 7pm but there will be food and drinks available from 6.45pm.