What is core in SOLR?
Hereof, what is SOLR core and collection?
Collection is a logical index spread across multiple servers. Core is that part of server which runs one collection. In non-distributed search, Single server running the Solr can have multiple collections and each of those collection is also a core.
Additionally, how do I delete a core in SOLR?
For the solr delete command the -c <name> option is required while the other options (parameters) are optional. Delete the named Solr core or collection with default options. Solr will delete the specified core and its associated configuration files at the first port number found.
Solr is a wrapper over Apache lucene library. It uses lucene classes to create this index known as Inverted Index. Apache Solr is a search engine. you index a set of document (say, news articles) and then query Solr to return a set of documents that matches user query.