Highlights from DrupalCon DC: Apache SOLR

OHO, a certified Acquia Drupal partner, had a significant presence at DrupalCon DC last week. OHO developers, designers, and project managers headed down from Boston to attend dozens of sessions, take pages & pages of notes, and grow a hat size or two. This week, the OHO blog will cover some of our favorite parts of the conference.

One of the first sessions we attended talked about Drupal’s implementation of Apache SOLR. SOLR is an enterprise-oriented search server, and it offers one of the best user experiences around. It can handle misspellings and manage different word tenses. It’s intelligent enough to weight the search results by the order that you’d like to see them. In addition, SOLR can intrinsically handle Faceted Searches, one of the main features our customers have asked for in their sites. The full presentation can be found here.

Apache SOLR will play a huge part in Acquia Drupal. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled- OHO plans to release some Acquia Drupal sites in the near future!