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Apache Tika: 1 point Oh!

Apache Tika's all grown up!  A fledgling sub-project of Lucene for two years after emerging from the incubator in 2008, Tika is spreading its wings and...

0 replies - 4663 views - 11/16/11 by David Pell in Articles

Lucene 4.0 Updates at ApacheCon

Simon Willnauer, the new PMC chair of the Apache Lucene project, recently presented at ApacheCon 2011 on the status of Lucene 4.0.  So when is Lucene 4.0...

0 replies - 3492 views - 11/12/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server Published

We are pleased to announce that Eric Pugh and David Smiley have published the second Solr book in publication, Apache Solr 3 Enterprise Search Server. It is an...

0 replies - 6348 views - 11/11/11 by Jason Hull in News

SearcherLifetimeManager prevents a broken search user experience

In the past, search indices were usually very static: you built them once, called optimize at the end and shipped them off, and didn't change them very...

0 replies - 3046 views - 11/10/11 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Apache Tika 1.0 Solidifies Position in Content and Metadata Detection and Analysis

The 1.0 release of Apache Tika, a collection of Java libraries for the detection and extraction of structured text and metadata, has been 5 years in the making...

0 replies - 5634 views - 11/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Using Lucene and Cascalog for Fast Text Processing at Scale

This post explains text processing and analytics techniques used at the startup Yieldbot.  Their technology uses open source tools including Cascalog, Lucene,...

0 replies - 5693 views - 11/09/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Video: Portable Lucene Index Format & Applications

This talk by Andrzej Bialecki (Lucid Imagination) will present a design and implementation of a flexible, version-independent serialization format for Lucene...

0 replies - 3579 views - 11/08/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Lucene Eurocon 2011: Day One

As we wrote a few days ago we are back from this years Lucene Eurocon, which took place in Barcelona. Despite the fact that the videos will be available...

3 replies - 4828 views - 11/07/11 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Near-real-time readers with Lucene's SearcherManager and NRTManager

Last time, I described the useful SearcherManager class, coming in the next (3.5.0) Lucene release, to periodically reopen your IndexSearcher when multiple...

1 replies - 4754 views - 11/05/11 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Apache Harmony Finally Defeated

Some have probably been expecting it for a long time, and this week it finally happened.  Apache Harmony, an open source cleanroom implementation of Java was...

4 replies - 9343 views - 11/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Another Lucene Eurocon is History

Another Lucene Eurocon is a history. That was a very intense two days, where the basic problem was: which of the three lectures go to. Sometimes the choice...

0 replies - 3481 views - 10/31/11 by Marek Rogoziński in News

Portable Lucene Index Format & Applications

Andrzej Bialecki from Lucid Imagination had a great talk at Apache Lucene Eurocon 2011.  Below is the summary and i've attached the slides which are in PDF...

0 replies - 3201 views - 10/29/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Video: Search + Big Data: It's (still) All About the User

Thanks in no small part to Lucene, quality keyword search is easily obtainable. Likewise, tools like Apache Hadoop and its ecosystem have made it easier to...

0 replies - 4252 views - 10/29/11 by Grant Ingersoll in Articles

Hadoop lets you store everything; with Lucene/Solr and more

This month’s Wired Magazine features a story on the roots of Hadoop at Yahoo and the three companies vying to drive its commercial frontiers farther...

0 replies - 7224 views - 10/28/11 by David Fishman in Articles

Solr and Hadoop 'HUG' it Out

This talk on using Hadoop and Solr together for a NoSQL-like result was given by Ken Krugler, a friend of DZone who wrote the amazingly popular article, Solr +...

0 replies - 5692 views - 10/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos