Yes, Berlin Buzzwords is back on the 4th & 5th June 2012! This really is only conference for developers and users of open source software projects, focusing on the issues of scalable search, data-analysis in the cloud and NoSQL-databases. All the talks and presentations are specific to three tags; “search”, “store” and “scale”. Looking back […]
The State and Future of Spatial Search
The release of Solr 3.1, containing Solr’s official spatial search support, has coincided with a new debate about the future of spatial search in Solr and Lucene. JTeam has been involved in the development of spatial search support for a number of years and we maintain our own spatial search plugin for Solr. Consequently this […]
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Although SSP v1.0 has been replaced by the simpler 2.0 version, some of you out there are probably still using 1.0 version.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 […]
SSP 2.0 – Spatial Search Plugin for Solr
It has been over a year since we released our Spatial Solr Plugin (SSP) to the community and its great to see that its serving so many users so well. During that time there has also been a great deal of work done on adding official spatial search support to Solr. Much of this work is now […]
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 […]
Spatial Lucene 2.0
In a number of blog entries we have spoken about the spatial search functionality that we have been developing here at Jteam. In the last two weeks, I have had a chance to contribute much of this work back to the Apache Lucene project with the goal of furthering the development of Lucene’s open source […]
Geo-Location Search with Solr and Lucene
Like many people, I use Google Maps to find businesses near my house. This kind of search differs considerably from usual free text searches since I’m no longer just asking for companies that include the phrase pizza, I’m also asking for companies that are near a certain point. This functionality has until recently been found […]