Imagine you are a Kindergarten teacher and a whole bunch of kids are playing with lego. Suddenly it’s almost 4pm and the big mess needs to be cleaned up, so you ask each kid to pick up one lego brick and put it in your hands. They all run around, bringing bricks to you one […]
SSP 1.0 Video Tutorial
Although SSP v1.0 has been replaced by the simpler 2.0 version, some of you out there are probably still using 1.0 version. Because we like to provide as much assistance as we can to our users, we’ve decided to publish a video tutorial I created on how to configure and use SSP v1.0. It walks […]
Solr and Lucene 3.1 Release
The new release of Solr and Lucene 3.1, available here and here, is the first major release for Solr in almost two years and the first joint release of both projects. With each project having resolved several hundred issues leading to the release, lets take a look at the major improvements and new features including […]
Gimme all resources you have – I can use them!
Exploiting full IO and CPU concurrency when indexing with Apache Lucene During the last year Apache Lucene has been improved an extreme amount with outstanding improvements such as 100 times faster FuzzyQueries, new Term-Dictionary implementation, enhanced Segment-Merging and the famous Flexible-Indexing API. Recently I started working on another fundamental change referred to as DocumentsWriterPerThread, an […]
Introduction to Lucene Connectors Framework – Part 1
In my previous blog, Searching your Java CMS using Apache Solr: Introduction, I looked at how to synchronize the information in a Java CMS with a Solr index. This blog is an introduction to the Lucene Connectors Framework, a crawler framework I will use to solve the problem of making the information from a Java […]
Enterprise Search using Solr and Lucene
The Enterprise Search market has long been dominated by commercial vendors and their products (e.g. Autonomy and Fast). We at JTeam feel that this era is finally over. At least for certain customers and requirements, there is finally a good Open Source alternative: Apache Solr, which is the Enterprise Search server based on Apache Lucene. […]
Searching your Java CMS using Apache Solr: Introduction
All Content Management Systems (CMS) provide the capability for users to search the content and browse the result. However, commonly this functionality turns out to be insufficient. This can be either because you want to allow users to search over multiple sources (the content repository, but also some external system) and combine the result. Or […]
Language analysis comparable to Fast / Endeca for Solr
Good, solid language analysis is a very important asset for the quality of your search results. It is one of the features that for instance Microsoft Fast and Endeca are using as one of their unique selling points. However, you can get the same powerful analysis when using Apache Solr to implement your search.
Spatial Solr Plugin 1.0-RC4
I am pleased to announce the latest release of our Spatial Solr Plugin, v1.0-RC4. This release is a backwards compatible with RC3, and contains the following changes: PDF documentation has been improved to remove inconsistencies in request parameter and source code package names SpatialFilter now includes hashCode and equals implementations, facilitating storage of the filter […]
First Dutch Lucene User Group Meetup
August last year, we announced the new Dutch Lucene User Group with the intention to provide a platform for knowledge sharing and discussions for the Lucene community in The Netherlands. Obviously, beyond setting up a dedicated website for that, the main activity of this usergroup should be in the form of periodic meetups. Unfortunately it […]