In this how-to we are presenting the steps you have to follow in order to install Tomcat 7 and Solr on a Centos 5.5...
3 replies - 11677 views - 10/24/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
It took 6 weeks, but Fred Zimmerman, a blogger for Nimblebooks.com just completed a very cool use case scenario for Solr indexing. He cloned all of Wikipedia...
0 replies - 7261 views - 10/23/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
When LinkedIn acquired IndexTank and announced that IndexTank services would be discontinued within six months, current customers might have felt an unexpected...
0 replies - 4415 views - 10/21/11 by John Esposito in Articles
To hear him tell it two weeks ago, Larry Ellison’s Oracle had everything you need for search technology; no need for that legacy search...
3 replies - 3394 views - 10/21/11 by David Fishman in News
As Lucene Eurocon 2011 wraps up in Barcelona today, not everyone had gotten the answer they were looking for but some tweeted that they left with plenty of...
0 replies - 3634 views - 10/20/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
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 - 4471 views - 10/13/11 by David Fishman in News
“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 - 3311 views - 10/12/11 by Rafał Andrzejewski in News
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 - 3907 views - 10/05/11 by Mats Lindh in News
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 - 4087 views - 10/03/11 by Emmanuel Espina in News
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 - 5395 views - 09/26/11 by Yonik Seeley in News
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 - 7634 views - 09/18/11 by Grant Ingersoll in News
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 - 7423 views - 09/16/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
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 - 7355 views - 09/15/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
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 - 4612 views - 09/13/11 by Rafał Kuć in News
Solr took another step toward increasing its NoSQL datastore capabilities, with the addition of realtime get.
Background
As readers probably know,...
0 replies - 7229 views - 09/08/11 by Yonik Seeley in News
