This article guides you through the steps to setup a local instance of Apache Solr using Docker. To get started with Apache Solr, you can set up a local instance using Docker. Follow the steps to pull the Solr docker image, run the image, and view the Solr admin screen

Apache Solr is a powerful full-text search engine built on top of Lucene, providing additional features such as distributed search, faceted search, sharding, and replication. Solr cores allow for multiple indexes to be hosted on a single server while still maintaining separation and isolation. SolrCloud is a distributed and scalable collection of Solr instances that allows for horizontal scaling and high availability. With features such as queries, filters, and Boolean logic, Solr is a versatile search engine that can handle complex search scenarios.

Apache Solr is an open-source, Java-based, search server built on top of Apache Lucene by the Apache Software Foundation. It is highly scalable, reliable, fault-tolerant and distributed and designed for powerful document retrieval applications. Solr is based on open standards and uses HTTP URLs for its queries.