Acquia Search¶

Adding Acquia Search to your website creates a rich index of your website content and adds faceted search refinement, helping users find content faster and stay on your website longer.

Acquia Search provides your website with the following features:

• Solr search as a service: Acquia Search is an easy to configure Solr search service letting you deliver flexible Drupal website search capabilities in minutes.
• Faster searches: Your users can find what they are looking for faster than using Drupal’s built-in search. Acquia Search has delivered searches with a 60% to 500% improvement in response time.
• High availability: Acquia’s search infrastructure of Solr servers, coupled with Nginx load balancers in a round-robin configuration, ensure consistent availability of your website’s search index.
• Security: Apache Solr has no native security mechanism; administrators must create their own security system on the application or network layer. Acquia has implemented an HMAC authentication mechanism on the Solr servers allowing access to authorized sites. All data transmits through SSL if the client server supports it. Acquia Search also respects node access controls, enabling search content limited to authorized users.
• Result filtering and weighting: Users can use facets to filter search results, and the content of your choice appears near the top in search results, shaping your users’ website experience.
• Content recommendations: Recommend similar or related content to visitors, which can increase their time on your website.
• Multi-entity and attachment searches: The customer can search through multiple types of content—not only content nodes, but also users, taxonomy terms, or your own custom entity types. Search also can include the contents of files attached to your websites.
• Better knowledge of the data structure: Acquia Search systematically understands when content changes, and updates the index which means updating your index requires one small change, instead of waiting for a crawler to check your entire website for changes. Better knowledge of the data structure also means the index can contain metadata not visible to crawlers.