Shalin Shekhar Mangar gave an introduction to Apache Lucene and Solr at the 4th Bangalore Lucene/Solr Meetup on April 19th, 2014. He provided an overview of Lucene as a Java-based search library for adding search and indexing to applications. He then discussed Solr, which is based on Lucene and allows accessing Lucene via HTTP with features like faceting, replication, and distributed search. He also demonstrated indexing and searching with Solr using its Java client SolrJ.