Re: [VuFind-Tech] Reporting Tools and SOLR

[Andrew N. <as...@gm...>]

I think the closest thing is the DataImportHandler so that Solr can read
data in from an ODBC source.
This would be a good question for the solr-user mailing list.

Andrew

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Greg Pendlebury <pen...@us...>wrote:

>  Thanks Andrew,
>
> Certainly sounds like an answer to me :)
>
> I'm still curious if anyone has seen an ODBC driver for SOLR because it
> would enable access to the bid data via there as well... but I'm doubtful,
> it sounds too left of field.
>
> Ta,
>
>
> *Greg Pendlebury*
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> *From:* Andrew Nagy [mailto:as...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Friday, 31 October 2008 1:11 PM
> *To:* Greg Pendlebury
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> *Subject:* Re: [VuFind-Tech] Reporting Tools and SOLR
>
> Greg - I had begun a statistics recording process that would record various
> statistical items such as a record view, a search, etc. to a separate solr
> index.  However, I didn't really like creating extra effort on the server
> and decided to "disable" the feature.  The code is still there.  You could
> simply change the action of recording to solr to a database such as mysql
> instead.
>
> The vufind/web/sys/SolrStats.php is the file.  You could change this to
> write to mysql rather than to Solr.  I think this would be pretty easy to do
> since the SolrStats.php file is very basic.
>
> Let me know if this seems like your answer.
>
> Andrew
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Greg Pendlebury <pen...@us...>wrote:
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>> I'm just wondering how other organisations are looking at their usage
>> statistics that VuFind keeps in SOLR?
>>
>> As part of our product evaluation I've been asked to assess how our
>> existing reporting tool (Cognos Impromptu) would talk to the stats.
>>
>> Of course the logical answer from me would be to find a reporting tool
>> that actually likes XML data sources (<sarcasm>how 21st century of
>> me</sarcasm>), but that's not an option. Impromtu likes ODBC data sources…
>>
>> Does anyone know if:
>>
>> A) There are any projects out there for ODBC drivers that talk to SOLR.
>> (couldn't find any from quick searches today)
>> B) Switch VuFind's stats to the underlying database would be easy.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> *Greg Pendlebury*
>> Electronic Services Officer (Systems Team)
>> Division of Academic Information Services
>> University of Southern Queensland
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