
Grant Ingersoll, who is a major leader in the Apache Lucene, Mahout, and Solr communities and a friend of DZone (see our most recent interview), was bestowed...
0 replies - 3646 views - 08/07/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Several months ago, during one of the projects I have tried to construct
a query with optimal faceting. The problem was that we need filters (fq)
in the...
0 replies - 4120 views - 08/06/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

From time to time, in working with Solr there is a common problem – when do you
update the Solr index structure. There are various reasons for these...
0 replies - 4853 views - 08/03/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

Eric Pugh got notified today that he’s been accepted to speak on “Better Search Engine Testing” at the 2011 Apache Lucene Eurocon.
So, what, you may...
0 replies - 4006 views - 08/02/11 by Jason Hull in News

In the last “car sale application” related post we have described the
result grouping functionality. Today I would like to show you how
easily we can...
1 replies - 3404 views - 08/01/11 by Rafał Andrzejewski in News

On Friday, the second version of the Couchbase Server was revealed. The new server should "be easy to install and manage, and will bring new indexing and...
0 replies - 15811 views - 07/31/11 by Ross Jernigan in Daily Dose

Following up on the
previous post about escaping values in a Solr query string, it’s
important to note that you should not escape spaces in the query...
0 replies - 5531 views - 07/30/11 by Mats Lindh in News

In a large number of implementations which I took part in, sooner or
later, the question arise – what can we do to get faceting as a tree
structure....
0 replies - 4063 views - 07/28/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

In the first part we were able to index the information contained in the database. In the second part we will try to extend the functionality by adding...
0 replies - 4513 views - 07/27/11 by Marek Rogoziński in News

Almost everyone has seen how the autocomplete feature looks like. No
wonder, then, Solr provides mechanisms by which we can build such
functionality. In...
6 replies - 6502 views - 07/26/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

One of the many great things about Solr is that it allows you to add
dynamic fields – you can define a certain pattern that a field will have
to follow,...
0 replies - 6534 views - 07/25/11 by Mats Lindh in News

The question I asked myself recently what seems to be one of those
for which the response should be quick and painless. So, when to send
the commit command...
0 replies - 5931 views - 07/21/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

After upgrading our Solr-servers from 1.4.1 to 4.0-trunk (to be sure
we were ready for the next version), I had trouble with getting
replication to start...
0 replies - 5494 views - 07/20/11 by Mats Lindh in News

Imagine the following problem – we have an application that expects
Solr to return the results sorted on the basis of some field. Those
results will be...
1 replies - 4817 views - 07/18/11 by Rafał Kuć in News

When making XML requests to Solr (A fulltext document search engine)
for indexing, committing, updating or deleting documents, the request is
submitted as...
0 replies - 6022 views - 07/15/11 by Mats Lindh in News