Solr & Lucene at Etsy

Gregg Donovan
Technical Lead, Search
gregg@etsy.com
 1.5 years Solr & Lucene at Etsy.com

3 years Solr & Lucene at TheLadders.com

8+ million members
9.3 million items
800k+ active sellers
1+ billion pageviews / month
Maximize Solr out-of-the-box
Hack at a low-level
Know when to do each
Or
Don’t fear trunk
builds.apache.org/job/Solr-trunk/changes
 http://localhost:8393/solr/placesuggest/
select?
q={!lucene}s*
&sfield=latlong&pt=37.595804,-122.364521
&sort=div(geodist(),sqrt(sum(population,50)))
%20asc
{!lucene}
{!field}
{!term}
{!boost}
{!func}
{!dismax}
{!edismax}
Cheap ranking awesomeness
ExternalFileField ftw!
schema.xml:
<fieldType name="file" keyField="treasury_id" defVal="0"
stored="false" indexed="true" class="solr.ExternalFileField"
valType="float"/>
<field name="hotness" type="file"/>

/search/data/treasury/external_hotness.1306390802088:
1=2.3
2=1.7
3=1.1

Solr query:
sort={!func}hotness+desc
ExternalFileField caveats
More relevance: boost query
http://localhost:8983/solr/listings/select?
q={!boost b=$rel v=$qq}
&rel=category:furniture^10+OR+((-material:acrylic)
^5)
&qq=desk
Impression tracking
etsy.com/search?q=desk&explain=1
Side-by-Side testing
Cheap performance wins
Put off sharding till you must
cat ${indexDir}/* > /dev/null
Return IDs, minimize stored fields
RAM: $10-20 / GB
SSD: 0.1ms vs 10ms seek
Custom?
solr-user
Tools for low-level hacking
Continuous deployment
 One button.
So easy a dog could do it.
MTTR > MTBF
github.com/etsy/logster
Tracking GC
export GC_DEBUG="-verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintHeapAtGC -XX:
+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime -XX:+PrintAdaptiveSizePolicy -
XX:AdaptiveSizePolicyOutputInterval=1 -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution -XX:
+PrintGCDetails -Xloggc:/var/log/search/gc.log"
Alerting
Testing
SaveAsFixture
Profiling
Java Primitive Library
fastutil
trove4j
Know the hooks
SolrRequestHandler
SearchComponent
QParserPlugin
SolrEventListener
SolrCache
ValueSourceParser
SolrIndexSearcher gotchas
reference counting
using it as a cache key:
WeakHashMap<SolrIndexSearcher,MyValue> myCache...
 Example:
personalized collections
fq={!term f=id}123 OR {!term f=id}456
Need a map of PK to docId
Use custom SolrCache plus SolrEventListener
to fill it
github.com/giokincade/FastTermFilter
i18n currency sorting and filtering
currency.xml:

<currencyConfig version="1.0">
! <currencies>
! ! <currency name="United States Dollar" symbol="$" code="USD"/>
! ! <currency name="Australian Dollar" symbol="$" code="AUD"/>
! ! <currency name="Canadian Dollar" symbol="$" code="CAD"/>
! ! <currency name="Czech Koruna" symbol="Kč" code="CZK"/>
...
! </currencies>
! <rates>
! ! <rate from="USD" to="AUD" rate="1.168750"/>
! ! <rate from="USD" to="CAD" rate="1.085000"/>
! ! <rate from="USD" to="CZK" rate="20.107500"/>
! ! <rate from="USD" to="DKK" rate="5.323750"/>
...
</rates>
</currencyConfig>
 price:[$10.00 to $50.00]

price:[10.00USD to 50.00USD]

price:20.00EUR
MoneyFieldType.java:

@Override
public Query getRangeQuery(QParser parser, SchemaField field, String part1, String part2,
final boolean minInclusive, final boolean maxInclusive) {
final MoneyValue p1 = MoneyValue.parse(part1, defaultCurrency);
final MoneyValue p2 = MoneyValue.parse(part2, defaultCurrency);

if (!p1.getCurrencyCode().equals(p2.getCurrencyCode())) {
throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,
new ParseException("Cannot parse range query " + part1 + " to " + part2 +
": range queries only supported when upper and lower bound have same
currency."));
}

String currencyCode = p1.getCurrencyCode();

final MoneyValueSource vs = new MoneyValueSource(field, currencyCode, parser);

return new SolrConstantScoreQuery(new ValueSourceRangeFilter(vs,

p1.getAmount() + "", p2.getAmount() + "", minInclusive, maxInclusive));
}
Replication gotcha
SOLR-2202
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