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- In his setup, the core contains 267,000 documents—about 400 MB of data—indicating efficient indexing that balances size and speed.
He highlights how Solar sustains high performance with relatively modest resource consumption, making it an ideal backend for large-scale textual data.
Setting Up Solar with Wikipedia Data
The process involves several steps:
Starting Solar with Docker
Shapiro provides a straightforward batch script to launch Solar:
It specifies data directories.
Maps necessary ports (port 8983).
Uses a pre-creation script labeled as wiki.
This simplicity streamlines deployment, making Solar accessible for developers and researchers.