By Mark MillerJanuary 23, 2012
The second phase of SolrCloud has been in full swing for a couple of months now and it looks like we are going to be able to commit this work to trunk very soon! In Phase1 we built on top of Solr’s distributed search capabilities and added cluster state, central config, and built-in read side fault tolerance. Phase 2 is even more ambitious and focuses on the write side. We are talking full-blown fault tolerance for reads …
By Cassandra TargettJanuary 20, 2012
The Solr Reference Guide has been updated for the 3.5 release of Solr and Lucene. Only minor changes were needed this time around. In particular, we added information on:
langid UpdateProcessorsortMissingFirst/Lasthl.q for use with highlightingThe Solr Reference Guide is available for free online or as a downloadable …
By AmeenaJanuary 9, 2012
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: 12200 Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
The latest Los Angeles/ OC Apache Lucene/Solr User group meeting was held at Shopzilla in LA. We had Grant Ingersoll from Lucid Imagination speaking at the event. In this talk, Grant spoke about some of the tools available (recommendations, faceting options, amongst others) in Solr and Mahout to aid in the discovery process and how these two …
By Cassandra TargettJanuary 3, 2012
We get asked a lot by customers what’s in a new Solr/Lucene release that applies to them, and with our own LucidWorks Platform available, customers naturally want to know what they’ll get that they don’t already have. If you’re happily running along on Solr 1.4, why or when should you update to a newer version? Should you migrate to LucidWorks?
So we decided to try to put together a matrix of major features and show …
By AmeenaDecember 29, 2011
LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0.1 is an interim bug-fix release. We have resolved a couple of critical bugs and LDAP integration issues. The list of issues resolved with this updates are available here.
Download
You can download the latest version 2.0.1 here.
Install
If you are running LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 or LucidWorks 1.8, you can use the upgrade scripts and move to version 2.0.1.
For those of you running LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0, you can now …
By hossmanDecember 28, 2011
I really dislike the so called “Boolean Operators” (“AND”, “OR”, and “NOT”) and generally discourage people from using them. It’s understandable that novice users may tend to think about the queries they want to run in those terms, but as you become more familiar with IR concepts in general, and what Solr specifically is capable of, I think it’s a good idea to try to “set aside childish things” and start thinking (and encouraging your users to think) in terms of the superior “Prefix Operators” (“+”, “-”).
By Tomás Fernández LöbbeDecember 14, 2011
Working at Lucid Imagination a customer once asked me about how they could modify the score of the documents in Solr in order to get most relevant results higher in the results list. While I was trying to respond the question I realized that there are too many different options, and that not all of them are very easy to understand, so I decided to write some notes summarizing the most common/most used ways to …
By AmeenaDecember 14, 2011
The next JavaMUG meeting is on December 14th 2011. Erik Hatcher from Lucid Imagination will be presenting at the event. He will talk about Apache Solr, its features and benefits. This will be an introductory Solr talk.
Apache Solr serves search requests at enterprises and the largest companies around the world. Built on top of the top–notch Apache Lucene library, Solr makes indexing and searching integration into your applications straightforward.
Solr provides faceted navigation, spell …
By AmeenaDecember 13, 2011
The first San Francisco Apache Mahout user meeting was held on November 29th 2011 at Lucid Imagination head quarters in Redwood City. The 3-hour session hosted 2 talks followed by networking, food and drinks.
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By Erik HatcherDecember 12, 2011
| Tuesday, 13 December 2011 |
Last minute mention, in case you happen to be in the Central VA area (Richmond and surrounding areas) tomorrow night… I’ll be discussing Solr and the latest greatest techniques folks are using to work with Solr from Ruby. The abstract blurb follows: “Erik Hatcher will discuss and demonstrate the state of the art with using Solr from Ruby. He’ll cover RSolr (and the forthcoming deprecation and removal of solr-ruby, RIP: solr-ruby), …