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Solr 3.1+: JSON Update Handler

After the release of Solr 3.1 I decided to look into the extended list of formats through which we can update the indexes. Until now we had a choice of...

1 replies - 4649 views - 10/14/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Lucene goes from Enterprise Search to search platform

Somewhere in the soap opera that might be titled ‘As Hewlett Packard Turns’, the question of the impact of the Autonomy acquisition on...

0 replies - 4461 views - 10/13/11 by David Fishman in News

“Car sale application” – solr.ReversedWildcardFilter – let’s optimize wildcard queries (part 8)

“Car sale application” users started to use wildard queries more and more often. This fact forced us to think about wildcard queries optimization....

0 replies - 3308 views - 10/12/11 by Rafał Andrzejewski in News

Flexible ranking in Lucene 4

Over the summer I served as a Google Summer of Code mentor for David Nemeskey, PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University. David proposed to improve...

0 replies - 3630 views - 10/11/11 by Robert Muir in News

Solr Data Import Handler & XML – nested entities

Data Import Handler is a very nice and powerful tool. The following entry is a description of the problem (and solutions) which I met...

0 replies - 3898 views - 10/07/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

LucidWorks 2.0 Solr Development Platform Now Available!

It gives me great pleasure to announce that LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0 is now available now for download. The platform that accelerates and simplifies search...

0 replies - 1974 views - 10/05/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Announcements

Solr Slowdown - Know What Partition You Index to

This is perhaps the most obvious and “not very helpful” post for quite a few people, but for those who experience this issue, it’ll save the day....

0 replies - 3901 views - 10/05/11 by Mats Lindh in News

Multivalued geolocation fields in Solr

Today we’ll see a small workaround that can be used to accomplish a very common use case regarding geographic search. The example use case is...

0 replies - 4078 views - 10/03/11 by Emmanuel Espina in News

Sorting by function value in Solr

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 - 4160 views - 09/27/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Building Distributed Indexing for Solr: MurmurHash3 for Java

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 - 5381 views - 09/26/11 by Yonik Seeley in News

Lucene and Solr's CheckIndex to the Rescue!

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 - 5070 views - 09/22/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Estimating Memory and Storage for Lucene/Solr

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 - 7589 views - 09/18/11 by Grant Ingersoll in News

Check Out the New Apache Solr 3.4 Programmer’s Guide!

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

Lucene and Solr 3.4

Today, we can enjoy another version of Lucene and Solr – release numbered 3.4. In the newest version there are a few functionalities worth looking...

0 replies - 7348 views - 09/15/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Solr Optimization – query result window size

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 - 4595 views - 09/13/11 by Rafał Kuć in News