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Solr as an Analytics Engine - A Key Theme at this Week's Lucene Revolution

The de facto Lucene and Solr conference is underway today in Boston, Massachusetts.  I believe it's the third annual US version of the conference.  A...

0 replies - 4549 views - 05/09/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Know a Difficult Solr Problem?

For those of you not following the Lucene Revolution Blog I’ve posted some updates there about Stump The Chump over the last couple of weeks: The panel...

0 replies - 2324 views - 05/08/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

Lucene's TokenStreams are Actually Graphs!

Lucene's TokenStream class produces the sequence of tokens to be indexed for a document's fields. The API is an iterator: you call incrementToken to...

1 replies - 6626 views - 05/01/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Lucene has two Google Summer of Code students!

I'm happy to announce that two Lucene Google Summer of Code projects were accepted for this summer! The first project (LUCENE-3312), proposed by Nikola...

0 replies - 3402 views - 04/29/12 by Michael Mccandless in Articles

Once a Chump, Always a Chump - Try and Stump Me

The first time I ever presented at an “International Tech Conference” was ApacheCon 2006 in Austin TX. Even though there were probably only ~200 people...

0 replies - 2582 views - 04/27/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

Clarifying Lucene Index Creation, A Beginner's Approach

Introduction I've recently been working with the open source search engine Lucene. I'm no expert, but since I pored through some rather sparse...

0 replies - 3590 views - 04/25/12 by Chad Davis in Articles

The Art of Searching

Blur, which is based on Apache Lucene, is a search engine capable of searching billions of records quickly. The underlying data structures and algorithms...

0 replies - 4527 views - 04/25/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Videos

Neo4J: Searching for Nodes by Name With Lucene Autocomplete

As I mentioned in a post a few days ago I’ve been graphing connections between ThoughtWorks people using neo4j and wanted to build auto complete...

0 replies - 4034 views - 04/24/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

LWE 2.1 Adds Support for Drools + Crawler Scheduling

We know streamlined search utility building is a major need in the tech industry right now.  Amazon's recent Cloud Search announcement is evidence of that. ...

0 replies - 3714 views - 04/21/12 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Neo4j + Lucene: Querying a Graph Ontology

I’ve been playing around with neo4j using the neography gem to create a graph of all the people in ThoughtWorks and the connections between them based on...

0 replies - 6424 views - 04/20/12 by Mark Needham in Articles

6-Step Lucene Multi-Point Spatial Search Algorithm

This post describes a method of augmenting the lucene-spatial contrib package to support multi-point searches. It is quite similar to the method described...

0 replies - 4229 views - 04/17/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles

Lucene and Solr 3.6 Compared to 3.5

Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 3.6. When comparing to the 3.5 there were...

0 replies - 5729 views - 04/16/12 by Rafał Kuć in Articles

Apache Lucene and Solr 3.6 Release! New Language Analysis, Joins, and Finite-State APIs

Lucene / Solr 3.6 has been released and is available for download. As release manager, here’s my take on the new features: Language analysis: Newly added...

0 replies - 5314 views - 04/13/12 by Robert Muir in Articles

14 Ways to Contribute to Solr without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star

Last week, the venerable Andy Lester posted his “14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star“. It’s a...

0 replies - 4216 views - 04/02/12 by Chris Hostetter in Articles

Lucene Full Text Indexing with Neo4j

I spent some time working on full text search for Neo4j. The basic goals were as follows Control the pointers of the indexFull Text SearchAll operations are...

0 replies - 5678 views - 03/23/12 by Romiko Derbynew in Articles