Notes on DIH Architecture: Solr’s Data Import Handler
What the world really needs are some awesome examples of extending DIH (Solr DataImportHanlder), beyond the classes and unit tests that ship with Solr. That’s a tall order given DIH’s complexity, and...
View ArticleNew Packt book on Injecting Data into Solr
Instant Apache Solr Indexing Data How-To, by Alexandre RafalovitchPackt Publishing has a new book about getting data into Solr: Instant Apache Solr Indexing Data How-To by Alexandre Rafalovitch...
View ArticleSolr4 Documentation
The Solr 4 reference guide is now live in the LucidWorks and SearchHub Documentation Center.New topics covered include:Major changes from Solr 3 to Solr 4: Important things to consider before migrating...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Apache Solr 3.4: New Programmer’s Guide available
Yesterday’s announcement of the release of Solr 3.4 brings with it a host of welcome improvements that make search-related applications more powerful, faster, and easier to build. We’ve put together a...
View ArticleEstimating Memory and Storage for Lucene/Solr
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 always an interesting process, as I’ve always...
View ArticleFlexible ranking in Lucene 4
Over the summer I served as a Google Summer of Code mentor for David Nemeskey, PhD student at Eötvös Loránd University. David proposed to improve Lucene’s scoring architecture and implement some...
View ArticleSolr’s Realtime Get
Solr took another step toward increasing its NoSQL datastore capabilities, with the addition of realtime get.Background As readers probably know, Lucene/Solr search works off of point-in-time snapshots...
View ArticleNearRealTime Search in Solr 4
Now that NearRealTime search in Solr trunk has had a bit of time to bake, I’m starting to document how to take advantage of it on the Solr wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/NearRealtimeSearch…
View ArticleIndexing rich files into Solr, quickly and easily
This past weekend I presented yet another “Rapid Prototyping with Solr” presentation, this time back in the saddle with the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium in Raleigh, NC. I intentionally waited until...
View ArticleBenchmarking the new Solr ‘Near Realtime’ Improvements.
I’ve been working on integrating Solr into the Lucene benchmark module, and I’ve gotten the code to the point of being able to run some decent Solr NRT tests. I recently worked on re-architecting the...
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