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LucidWorks for Solr - New and Improved, with Installer and Reference Guide

LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr

LucidWorks for Solr — the comprehensive, tested and release-stable certified distribution of Apache Solr available free from Lucid Imagination — now introduces two powerful new features:

  • A comprehensive, well-organized Reference Guide documenting all of Solr’s important features and functions in a convenient e-book (pdf) format
  • A powerful new Installer, combining a simple wizard interface with a flexible software update service.
Key benefits of the LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr's latest release.
  • A solid foundation of reliability and consistency for production-grade use of open source
  • Fast, convenient access to documentation needed to build better search applications faster
  • Quick, simplified setup and maintenance of Solr and its constituent components
     
LucidGaze for Lucene
Certified Distribution
Version 1.4
Released: January 2010

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And, best of all, it's still free, and still comes with Lucid's exclusive 30 day Get Started assistance program.

By delivering the best of open source innovation in a predictable, stabilized, well-organized format, the LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr streamlines development efforts and simplifies deployment of your search applications, for faster, more effective time to innovation.

Latest Release

LucidWorks for Solr v1.4 is based on the most recent stable release of Apache Solr (v1.4) and includes the major new feature enhancements of this important new release. In addition to the new Installer and Reference Guide, LucidWorks for Solr v1.4 includes:

  • Complete version of Apache Solr v1.4, based on and including the LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene v2.9.1
  • Additional bug fixes and performance enhancements from the current trunk of the Apache Solr project, including non-blocking IO and significantly improved faceting performance.
  • 30-day free Get Started assistance program, providing search application developers with guidance on installation, configuration and basic useage of Solr.
  • LucidKStemmer, Lucid's optimized version of KStemmer, the Krovetz stemmer available from the University of Massachusetts. A stemmer reduces words to a root form, providing the ability to search for derivatives of a "stem word" (e.g., "team" is the stem of "teams"). This dictionary based inflectional stemmer stems less aggressively than the standard Porter stemmer included with Apache Lucene. (LucidKStemmer is English-only at this time.)
  • Lucene Index Toolbox (Luke), a handy development and diagnostic tool that no Lucene/Solr developer should be without. Luke allows developers to examine and modify existing Lucene indexes, and quickly identify issues in data feed, search accuracy and search relevancy.
  • LucidGaze for Solr is an open source monitoring tool created and contributed by Lucid for Solr environments. It provides a framework to capture, store, interactively view and compare various Solr performance metrics. LucidGaze for Solr is also available as a standalone download for those users that have already deployed Solr. The standalone LucidGaze for Solr tool is certified to work with Solr versions 1.3 and 1.4.

As a major update release, LucidWorks for Solr incorporates the compelling new features of Solr 1.4, including

  • enhanced data import capabilities
  • rich document handling
  • speedier numeric range queries
  • duplicate detection
  • java-based replication and deployment
  • smarter handling of index changes
  • faster faceting
  • streamlined caching
  • and more

 Read all the details by downloading the white paper, "What's new in Solr 1.4".