Introduction of Solr
Solr is a standalone enterprise search server with a web-services like API. You put documents in it (called "indexing") via XML over HTTP (RESTful). You query it via HTTP GET and receive XML results.

Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities
Optimized for High Volume Web Traffic
Standards Based Open Interfaces - XML and HTTP
Comprehensive HTML Administration Interfaces
Scalability [...]

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