Administering HCL Commerce Search
Business benefits
- Shoppers can look for products and browse the storefront by using an intuitive and highly responsive interface that can anticipate their needs. Basic functions include guided navigation, landing pages, and dynamic merchandising suggestions.
- Merchandisers can influence product selection and display order for category navigation using the Management Center Catalogs tool and they can set up boost/bury rules for influencing search results using the Search Rules feature in the Marketing tool.
- Relevant content is easier to find because the Search system uses a combination of relational database and unstructured text-searching modules.
- Search runs in its own container. Large numbers of complex search queries can run in parallel with order processing with no degradation in response time. Scalability is not a problem.
- Deployment and ownership costs are lower, since all of these capabilities come included with HCL Commerce.
Solr Elasticsearch feature comparison matrix
Feature name | HCL Commerce search based on Solr | HCL Commerce search based on Elasticsearch |
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Indexing | ||
Full Re-indexing | x | x |
Partial / Delta Index update | x | |
Near realtime Index update | x | |
Extensible Ingest pipeline | x | |
In-memory data flattening/transformation | x | |
Ingest pipeline monitoring dashboard | x | |
Customization | ||
Visual flow programming tool for Ingestion | x | |
Lighweight development tools | x | |
Open source application components | x | x |
Loosely coupled search application architecture | x | |
API-based configuration | x | |
Search results ranking / relevancy | ||
Natural language processing | x | |
Color matchmaker | x | |
Dimension / Measurement matchmaker | x | |
Range filter | x | |
Unit of measure filter | x | |
Workspaces | x | x |
Tools to manage SEO URLs | x | x |
Search rules (boost/bury, product pinning, change search criteria) | x | x |
Search term associations (synonyms, replacements, landing pages) | x | x |
Web activities (search triggers/targets) | x | x |
Storefront experience | ||
Facetedsearch / navigation | x | x |
Product variants (3-Tier) | x | x |
Catalog filter/Product entitlement | x | x |
Price rules | x | x |
Price mode | x | |
HCL Commerce platform language support | x | x |
Language fallback | x | x |
HCL Commerce support for Natural Language | x* | |
Result grouping (visual relevancy) | x | x |
Configurable autosuggest/type-ahead | x | x |
Search term highlighting | x | x |
Stopwords | x | x |
Synonyms txt file | x | |
Sales catalogs | x | x |
Performance | ||
Caching/Invalidation | x | x |
User roles that interact with HCL Commerce Search
- Store developers who want to deliver powerful search-based catalog browsing flows.
- Site Administrators who want to deploy, manage, and maintain HCL Commerce Search implementations.
- Merchandisers who want to influence search results by using the Management center.
Finding HCL Commerce Search documentation
Concept | Details and audience | For more information |
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Introduction | Learn about HCL Commerce Search and how it is integrated within
HCL Commerce. This information is intended for any HCL Commerce role responsible for researching HCL Commerce Search. |
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Tutorials | Learn about HCL Commerce Search by completing tutorials. This information is intended for any HCL Commerce role responsible for researching HCL Commerce Search. |
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Storefront features | Learn about the
cross-channel starter stores that take advantage
of WebSphere Commerce search, including the
ability to search by voice in mobile starter
stores. This information is intended for storefront developers responsible for deploying HCL Commerce search-enabled starter stores. |
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Index lifecycle | Learn about the index
lifecycle in HCL Commerce Search and how
Site administrators and business users can play
potential roles in updating the search index to
meet their business needs. This information is intended for Site Administrators responsible for administering HCL Commerce Search. |
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Search relevancy | Learn about tuning search
relevancy, so that customers can find products
more efficiently. This information is intended for Business Users and Site Administrators who are responsible for influencing search results in starter stores. |
Overview:Search term management: Search relevancy configuration:Auto-suggestion: |
Search merchandising | Learn about merchandising
the store catalog so that you can personalize the
storefront with content that is more relevant to
the target audience. This information is intended for Business Users who are responsible for influencing search results and product listings to maximize conversion. |
Overview:Landing pages:Catalog, Ruled Based Sales Categories, and facet management - Catalog Administrators:Merchandising rules: |
Customization | Learn about the
customization points in HCL Commerce Search
and how they can be used in your
implementation. This information is intended for HCL Commerce developers responsible for customizing HCL Commerce Search. |
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Migration | Learn about the capabilities
of HCL Commerce Search, and how its
functions can be upgraded between Feature Packs.
This information is intended for Site Administrators responsible for migrating their HCL Commerce Search implementation to a newer feature pack. |
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Performance tuning | Learn about how to tune and
optimize your HCL Commerce Search
implementation to meet your business needs. This information is intended for Site Administrators responsible for tuning HCL Commerce Search. |
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Troubleshooting | If you encounter problems
while you use HCL Commerce Search, refer to
the troubleshooting information to help determine
the problem and find possible
solutions. Successfully troubleshooting issues helps reduce complexity when you encounter errors in HCL Commerce Search. This information is intended for Site Administrators responsible for troubleshooting issues with HCL Commerce Search. |
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Pricing | Learn about how to index
different pricing models in HCL Commerce
search. This information is intended for Site Administrators responsible for configuring HCL Commerce Search. |