*edit* Sorry – jumped the gun with my original test code here – need to close the IndexWriter after the optimize! The gains are only with multi segment indexes. Corrected entry follows:
Lets do a little test. We will load up a FieldCache with 5,000,000 unique strings and see how long it takes Lucene 2.4 in comparison to Lucene 2.9.
September 21, 2009
It took a couple more RC’s than I guessed (5 total), but the final vote candidate is up, and unless something critical is found during the 3 day vote process, Lucene 2.9, almost a year in the making, will be available by the end of the week.
http://search.lucidimagination.com/search/document/f15d32710b70ca6b/vote_release_lucene_2_9_0
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September 21, 2009
| Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 |
Save $200 and visit Lucid Imagination at
Enterprise Search Summit West
November 17-19, 2009
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
http://enterprisesearchsummit.com/west2009/
Save $200 off the conference pass and get a free Expo pass.
Go here:
https://secure.infotoday.com/forms/default.aspx?form=esswest
and use discount code: VIPLI
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September 19, 2009
I’m working on a Garbage Collection article – I figured I’d share an early rough draft:
It’s not often the case, but sometimes when working with a large and busy Solr/Lucene installation, Garbage Collection becomes a bottleneck. This guide is meant to help you relieve that bottleneck should it arise.
Garbage collection in Java is the processes of freeing the memory used by objects that are no longer in…
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September 15, 2009
First, major kudos to the JavaZone team for putting on one of the most impressive conferences I’ve attended and had the honor at which to speak. From the tasty and hearty speakers dinner to Carl delivering my post-talk absent mindedly forgotten power cable to my hotel, the organizers put on a very well organized and classy event. The conference not only sported top notch technical content from the best of the best…
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September 15, 2009
| Thursday, 17 September 2009 |
| 09:00 |
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10:00 |
Join guest presenter Brian Pinkerton, Chief Architect of Lucid Imagination, as he makes an appearance with our partners at ISYS, at their Webinar entitled The Changing Face of Enterprise Search and Information Access. ISYS provides the ISYS File Readers, an embeddable set of over 200 file filters to extract text and other metadata from different file formats that you can download for trial from our Downloads page.
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September 14, 2009
Solr Cell, a new feature in the soon to be released Solr 1.4, allows users to send in rich documents such as MS Word and Adobe PDF directly into Solr and have them indexed for search. All of the examples on the Solr Cell wiki page, however only demonstrate how to send in the documents using the curl command line utility, while many Solr users rely on SolrJ, Solr’s Java-based client. Thus, I thought I…
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