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Solr on EC2

"Cloud computing" is all the rage recently, and Amazon's EC2 is one of the major players. The idea of spinning up a new instance of Solr in...

0 replies - 4450 views - 01/02/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Pig / Cassandra: binary operator expected

If you are trying to run Pig on Cassandra and you encounter: "binary operator expected"You are most likely running pig_cassandra against the latest...

0 replies - 3631 views - 01/01/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

Just the Job: Employing Solr for Recruitment Search

Charlie Hull, a search expert and engineer at Flax Serach, presents an interesting and useful case study in search.  Using this case study on a major European...

0 replies - 3609 views - 12/31/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Major Solr 4 Highlights

In this talk, Lucene/Solr committer Mark Miller will discuss some of the new features and advancements that users can look forward to in Solr 4. The list...

0 replies - 5258 views - 12/31/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Apache Whirr 0.7 Arrives with Support for Puppet, Chef, Mahout, and Ganglia

Apache Whirr version 0.7.0 has just been released with some nice new support features for DevOps folks and Machine Learning buffs.  The release also fixed 50...

0 replies - 5598 views - 12/29/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Lucene & Solr Year 2011 in Review

The year 2011 is coming to an end and it's time to reflect on the past 12 months.  Without further fluff, let's look back and summarize all significant events...

1 replies - 5791 views - 12/27/11 by Otis Gospodnetic in Articles

Explain.solr.pl beta version available

We are pleased to announce, that http://explain.solr.pl is now available for users. Please remember that this is a beta version and will be further...

0 replies - 3567 views - 12/27/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Solr Stump the Chump

Do you have a tough problem with your Solr application? Facing challenges that you'd like some advice on? Looking for new approaches to overcome a Solr issue?...

0 replies - 3411 views - 12/26/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Clustered Services With Apache Whirr: From Dev Up

Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra. Using Whirr,...

0 replies - 4021 views - 12/25/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Clustered Services With Apache Whirr: From Ops Down

Apache Whirr is an incubator project focused on simplifying management of distributed services such as Hadoop, ElasticSearch, and Cassandra. Using Whirr,...

1 replies - 4113 views - 12/24/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Randomized Continuous Testing: Solr & Lucene Use Case

We have been taught that unit tests should be repeatable and most people (including the author) for a long time considered this an equivalent to...

0 replies - 3729 views - 12/24/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

The Many Facets of Apache Solr

Faceted Searching is a must have feature for enhancing findability and user engagement in enterprise search UI. The Faceted Searching features of Apache...

3 replies - 4426 views - 12/23/11 by Yonik Seeley in Videos

LinkedIn Open Sources IndexTank - A Search System Kinda Like Solr

Big news for the world of open source search.  IndexTank, a real-time search and indexing system recently acquired by LinkedIn, has just been officially open...

1 replies - 5404 views - 12/22/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Solr: Missing Geographic Distance in Response When Using 'fl=_dist_:geodist()'

A question that arose recently at the Freenode Solr IRC channel was about _dist_:geodist() failing to include a field named _dist_ in the response – a...

0 replies - 3005 views - 12/21/11 by Mats Lindh in News

Lucene Today, Tomorrow & Beyond

Apache Lucene has grown to one of the most widely used Open Source search technologies. For more than a decade Lucene has been used to retrieve search...

2 replies - 4939 views - 12/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos