Stamping the version number and the build time of an application in a properties file so that it could be displayed by an application at runtime seemed like it...
0 replies - 8619 views - 03/23/12 by Rob Terpilowski in Articles
Solr 3.6 will have an interesting new feature for currency handling called solr.CurrencyField. Why do we need this when you can just use float for currency...
0 replies - 3520 views - 03/20/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
Hadoop is an open source project for processing large datasets in parallel with the use of low level commodity machines.Hadoop
is build on two main parts. An...
0 replies - 31602 views - 03/18/12 by Carlo Scarioni in Articles
Blur is a new Apache 2.0 licensed software project that provides a
search capability built on top of Hadoop and Lucene. Elastic Search and
Solr already...
0 replies - 5869 views - 03/16/12 by Scott Leberknight in Articles
Context-less, multi-term autocomplete is difficult.
Given the term "di", we can look at our index and rank terms starting
with "di" by...
0 replies - 5222 views - 03/16/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles
In the past, Lucene recorded only the bare minimal aggregate index
statistics necessary to support its
hard-wired classic
vector space scoring...
0 replies - 6782 views - 03/15/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles
Solr 3.5 comes with a nice autocomplete/typeahead component that is based on the SolrSpellCheckComponent.
You provide it a query and a field, and the...
0 replies - 5779 views - 03/07/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles
Many users don't appreciate the transactional semantics of Lucene's
APIs and how this can be useful in search applications. For starters, Lucene...
1 replies - 5472 views - 03/02/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles
Here’s a brief step by step guide to running more than one instance of Tomcat on a single machine.
Step 1: Install the Tomcat files
Download...
2 replies - 12330 views - 02/29/12 by Kief Morris in Articles
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0 replies - 16110 views - 02/28/12 by Chris Smith in Articles
Or “How to never re-use cached filter query results even though you meant to”:
Filter queries (“fq” clauses) are a means to restrict the number of...
0 replies - 6516 views - 02/27/12 by Erick Erickson in Articles
I am trying to put together a framework for search quality evaluation for a specialist information provider.
At the moment quality is measured by counting the...
1 replies - 2859 views - 02/26/12 by Tony Russell-rose in Articles
Yonik recently wrote about “Advanced Filter Caching in Solr” where
he talked about expensive and custom filters; it was left as an
exercise to the...
0 replies - 5313 views - 02/23/12 by Erik Hatcher in Articles
The Apache Software Foundation celebrates the 17th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Server today with the official release of v2.4.Celebrating its 17th...
0 replies - 5567 views - 02/21/12 by Chris Smith in Articles
Recently we had a change to help with a non-commercial project which
included search as its part. One of the assumptions, although not the
key ones, was...
1 replies - 4915 views - 02/21/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles
