Lucene’s default ranking function uses factors such as tf, idf, and norm to help calculate relevancy scores.
Solr has now exposed these...
2 replies - 17167 views - 04/21/11 by Yonik Seeley in News
There are many exciting improvements in Lucene's eventual 4.0 (trunk) release, but the awesome speedup to FuzzyQuery
really stands out, not only from its...
2 replies - 85477 views - 04/16/11 by Michael Mccandless in News
Need some tools to help you monitor the usage of your Apache Solr server? Do you also need it to support multi-core configurations? Then check out this...
0 replies - 12366 views - 04/14/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
When updating a Solr index with the DataImportHandler or one of the
available Solr clients you don’t really need to bother with all the
details of...
0 replies - 13348 views - 04/14/11 by Bas De Nooijer in News
Ahead of the Lucene Revolution conference, an event dedicated to open source search, DZone had the opportunity to speak with John Gifford, the CTO and...
0 replies - 15529 views - 04/13/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
While we make some of our money off of professional
services and support of Apache Lucene and Solr, I thought I would pass
along a few...
0 replies - 11093 views - 04/13/11 by Grant Ingersoll in News
When I started working with Solr I issued updates just like I was used
to do with databases: a single command followed by a commit. Later I
discovered this...
0 replies - 7413 views - 04/10/11 by Bas De Nooijer in News
Bixo Labs shows how to use Solr as a NoSQL solution for big dataMany people use the Hadoop open source
project to process large data sets because it’s a...
3 replies - 68187 views - 04/04/11 by Ken Krugler in Articles
The newest release of Solr and Lucene are ready for action!
Project leaders have changed Solr's version number scheme to mirror Lucene's. Both the Solr...
0 replies - 12432 views - 04/01/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
The other day, Michael Coté asked me where Apache Lucene and Solr fit in with the NoSQL movement (having heard about the Guardian’s
use of Solr), to which...
0 replies - 10996 views - 03/31/11 by Grant Ingersoll in Articles
Found a neat open source tool for building Solr clusters on Google Code today. The Anuenue wrapper is a pretty young project, but the documentation is coming...
0 replies - 5697 views - 03/31/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The newest release of one of the Apache Project's pet data warehouses, Hive 0.7.0, has been announced. Originally developed for Facebook and then turned over...
0 replies - 12806 views - 03/31/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Another company joins the Solr community today as they announce their migration from Sphinx open source search, to Apache's Solr technology. The company,...
0 replies - 5371 views - 03/30/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
In case you didn't hear about the Apache Lucene/Solr version alignment, we'll take a look at the big change once again with Grant Ingersoll, a Apache Lucene...
5 replies - 10228 views - 03/28/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos
This is Part 1 in a series of 11 (so far) articles by Chris Hostetter in 2011 on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr.There are three things...
2 replies - 5241 views - 03/22/11 by Chris Hostetter in News
