In Solr 3.1 and later we have a very interesting functionality, which
enables us to sort by function value. What does that gives us? Actually, a
few...
0 replies - 4162 views - 09/27/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
Background
I needed a really good hash function for the distributed indexing
we’re implementing for Solr. Since it will be used for partitioning...
0 replies - 5383 views - 09/26/11 by Yonik Seeley in News
While using Lucene and Solr we are used to a very high reliability. However, there may come a day when Solr will inform us
that our index is corrupted, and...
0 replies - 5073 views - 09/22/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
From a quiet start as a pet project to a giant in the industry, Apache Lucene is definitely the little (search) engine that could. On September 18th, 2001...
0 replies - 3684 views - 09/20/11 by Grant Ingersoll in News
Many times, clients ask us to help them estimate memory
usage or disk space usage or to share benchmarks as they build out there
search system. Doing so is...
1 replies - 7593 views - 09/18/11 by Grant Ingersoll in News
A new programmer's guide to Solr, The Programmer’s Guide to Open Source Search Search: What’s New in Apache Solr / Lucene 3.4, is now available courtesy of...
1 replies - 7412 views - 09/16/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
Hereby I would like to start a small series of articles describing
the elements of the optimization of Solr instances. At first glance I
decided to...
0 replies - 4598 views - 09/13/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
This post is going to demonstrate thrift usage by searching a Lucene index from Ruby.
Thrift In a Nutshell
Essentially thrift is a serialization and RPC...
1 replies - 5360 views - 09/12/11 by Bill Bejeck in News
In the previous parts (part 1, part. 2)
of the cycle, we learned how to configure and query Solr to get the
autocomplete functionality. In today’s...
0 replies - 6449 views - 09/09/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
Solr took another step toward increasing its NoSQL datastore capabilities, with the addition of realtime get.
Background
As readers probably know,...
0 replies - 7219 views - 09/08/11 by Yonik Seeley in News
While playing around with one of my development SOLR installations
(this time under Windows), I suddenly got a weird error message when
feeding data to one...
1 replies - 5728 views - 09/07/11 by Mats Lindh in News
In the previous part I showed how the faceting mechanism can be used
to achieve the autocomplete functionality. Today I’ll show you how to
use a...
2 replies - 6876 views - 09/05/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
We’ve extended our previously single Solr-node to a few nodes in a
cluster. This allows us to run queries against one node while updating
or configuring...
1 replies - 4433 views - 09/01/11 by Mats Lindh in News
A few months ago (here) we looked at filterCache. I’ve decided to update the optimization topic and take a look at the documentCache.
What it contains...
0 replies - 4729 views - 08/31/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
Our reader (greetings!) reported a problem with the cooperation of
DIH and sharding mechanism. The Solr project wiki, in my opinion,
discusses the solution...
0 replies - 6390 views - 08/30/11 by Marek Rogoziński in News
