Apache Solr

Solr is a server of searches that works inside a content of servlets similar to Tomcat. It is a searching tool of the most powerful and much optimized that is used in huge websites that need to make searches of complete text at high speed and over millions of registers.

It is managed on an interface in HTML and it responds to all the standards more used today (XML, HTTP, etc.). It also generates stats of the results so it can be monitored the times and the success of the queries. Its configuration is based in XML, what allows it to have a huge scalability and it has, as another big advantage, with a lot of plug-ins for if we want to go deeper in its usage.    We can also attack its APIs from almost any language of programming.

With Solr, we will be able to make searches on databases, files with documents of Word or PDF, filtered searches, etc.

Without a doubt, it is an app of the most necessary for all those people who want to get a better performance of all their local searches as tis program also allows its implementation in a computer.