In this chapter, we got started with Solr. We saw the various options available to start Solr and saw the directory and folder structure of Solr in detail. We learned how to run Solr as service, Solr and ZooKeeper configurations, how to load some sample data from documents and databases, the browse interface, and the Admin UI in detail.

Let's move on to designing a schema in the next chapter. We will learn how to design it using documents and fields. We will go through various field types and see the schema API. We will also look at the schemaless mode.