Transitioning from Customized Solr to Out-of-the-Box OpenSearch

How the existing Alfresco architecture to support Solr was evolved to integrate with OpenSearch.

1. May 6, 2024
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Transitioning from
Customized Solrto
Out-of-the-Box
OpenSearch
The Alfresco Journey

2. Search
Service
Alfresco Architecture for Apache Solr (2010)
Repository
ContentMetadata
Indexing
Model
Searching
Mapping
Transforming
REST API
Polling
REST API
Polling

3. Lessons learnt
Eventual consistency, depending on a
cron-scheduled process
Every Solr upgrade require changing
the Search Service source code
Solr Shard is not enough!
REST API
Polling
Search
Service
Scalability

4. Alfresco Architecture for OpenSearch (2021)
ContentMetadata
MessagingIndexing
Model
Searching
Mapping
TransformingRepository