At Devoxx 2012 I attended the AngularJS presentation by Igor Minar and Misko Hevery. I was very enthusiastic about the capabilities of this front-end framework. Therefore I started experimenting with it. I created a sample for the Axon Framework, read more about it here. After my experiments I felt confident enough to start using it […]
Introducing a Query tool as an Elasticsearch plugin (part 1)
In the past few weeks I have been working with Elasticsearch. I was missing a plugin to look at the data, create queries and evaluate different facets. That was when I decided to start working on a plugin that enables you to do just this. I have been working on AngularJS together with Twitter Bootstrap, […]
Searching with the elasticshell
So as promised here is a sequel to my previous post Introducing the elasticshell. Let’s start exactly where we left off… What about search? We of course need to search against the created index. We can provide queries as either json documents or Java QueryBuilders provided with the elasticsearch Java API, which are exposed to […]
Introducing the elasticshell
A few days ago I released the first beta version of the elasticshell, a shell for elasticsearch. The idea I had was to create a command line tool that allows you to easily interact with elasticsearch. Isn’t elasticsearch easy enough already? I really do think elasticsearch is already great and really easy to use. However, […]
Migrating Apache Solr to Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch is the innovative and advanced open source distributed search engine, based on Apache Lucene. Over the past several years, at Trifork we have been doing a lot of search implementations. Driven by the fact that every other customer wanted the ‘Google-experience’ (just a text box, type some text and get relevant results) as part […]
Enterprise search with Solr and Elasticsearch @ Hippo Meetup
At a recent Hippo meetup I gave a presentation about enterprise search. Being able to index and search your content, both in the Hippo CMS and in other sources, is of interest to many Hippo users. The presentation does not go into any Hippo specifics, but provides a brief introduction to search, Apache Lucene and […]
How to write an elasticsearch river plugin
Up until now I told you why I think elasticsearch is so cool and how you can use it combined with Spring. It’s now time to get to something a little more technical. For example, once you have a search engine running you need to index data; when it comes to indexing data you usually […]
What’s so cool about elasticsearch?
Whenever there’s a new product out there and you start using it, suggest it to customers or colleagues, you need to be prepared to answer this question: “Why should I use it?”. Well, the answer could be as simple as “Because it’s cool!”, which of course is the case with elasticsearch, but then at some […]
Elasticsearch beyond “Big Data” – running elasticsearch embedded
Trifork has a long track record in doing project, training and consulting around open source search technologies. Currently we are working on several interesting search projects using elasticsearch. Elasticsearch is an open source, distributed, RESTful, search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. In contrast to for instance Apache Solr, elasticsearch is built as a […]
Summer time…
For those you may have missed our newsletter last week I’d like to take this opportunity to give you a quick lowdown of what we’ve been up to. The summer months have been far from quiet and I’m pretty excited to share in this month’s edition lots of news on projects, products & upcoming events. […]