This tutorial introduces you to Cloudera Search and demonstrates some of its basic capabilities to help you become familiar with the concepts and components involved in Search. It demonstrates creating a simple test collection to validate your Cloudera Search installation, and then continues on to more advanced use cases of batch indexing, and then ingesting and indexing tweets from the Twitter public stream.

The topics in this tutorial assume you have completed the instructions in Installing Cloudera Search and Deploying Cloudera Search. The examples in this tutorial use two shards, so make sure that your deployment includes at least two Solr servers.

Continue reading:

• Validating the Cloudera Search Deployment
• Preparing to Index Sample Tweets with Cloudera Search
• Using MapReduce Batch Indexing to Index Sample Tweets
• Near Real Time (NRT) Indexing Tweets Using Flume
• Using Hue with Cloudera Search