Liferay is widely used open source portal with wide variety of features.  It manages content of various kind ex. Blogs , Wiki , User Information , Documents etc. In such case searching becomes one of the key aspect, by default liferay is bundled with lucene search indexer. From version 5.1.x liferay has made search engine pluggable and currently provides plugin integration with popular enterprise search engine Solr. In this blog I will share details about Solr ,  benefits of using solr in Liferay and solr-web (plugin to do integration between solr and liferay).