I’ve had quite a few people asking me about the state of geospatial support in Apache Solr lately, so I thought I would give a brief update here.

Much of the functionality behind SOLR-773 is now implemented in the trunk version of Solr and is available for check out.  This includes support for several different distance measures (Euclidean, Haversine, etc.) as well as support for sorting by functions (aka sorting by distance).  Due note there are some…

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Here’s the announcement:

Hello Lucene users,

On behalf of the Lucene development community I would like to announce the release of Lucene Java versions 3.0.1 and 2.9.2:

Both releases fix bugs in the previous versions:

- 2.9.2 is a bugfix release for the Lucene Java 2.x series, based on Java 1.4
- 3.0.1 has the same bug fix level but is for the Lucene Java 3.x series, based on Java 5.

New users of Lucene are advised to use version 3.0.1…

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Short Version

The Apache Lucene Connector Framework project has officially entered incubation.  LCF, for short, is going to be a framework for connecting to content repositories like Sharepoint, Documentum, etc. and will make it easy to hook into Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, while, of course, remaining agnostic of the final destination of the data.  See the Connectors website and the original proposal for more info.  Help wanted!

Long Version

Background

A while back, MetaCarta, a spatial search company, approached us…

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It’s that time of year, so I thought I would take a look back at the year that was for the Lucene Ecosystem and maybe look ahead just a little bit too.

First and foremost, it should be obvious to even the most casual observer that the Apache Lucene communities are thriving.  Not only is it a great time to be involved in open source, it’s a great time to be involved in Lucene.  Both as a…

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The paint is barely dry on Apache Solr 1.4 and the community is already on the move for Solr 1.5 (which may actually be Solr 2.0, but for now let’s call it 1.5).

I’m particularly excited about a few things:

1. Massive scalability capabilities via distributed search, indexing and shard management – Up until now, Solr scales pretty well on the search side (I’ve seen billion+ document instances and we’ve benchmarked it at that level too), but the work…

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WEBINAR: Take Control of Your Search Destiny:
Migrating to Apache Solr/Lucene Open Source Search

Hosted by KMWorld and featuring speakers from The Motley Fool

Click here to view the webinar or download the slides

As today’s business landscape changes, more and more companies want control over their search to take on the rapid acceleration in scale and diversity of their data and documents. But legacy commercial search applications can add hidden costs and constraints, and make it difficult to innovate…

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We’re happy to announce the availability of the latest release of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene.

LucidWorks for Lucene v2.9.1 is a major update for the LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Lucene,  incorporating Apache Lucene release 2.9.1, an upgrade to all of the accompanying utilities, extensive testing performed by Lucid Imagination and the feedback from many of our users who have downloaded and using it to power their search applications.

Change log for LucidWorks for Lucene v2.9.1 includes:

• Upgrade…

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I will be presenting two sessions at the devoxx conference next week in Antwerp, Belgium.  Both sessions share the same title “Solr Power with Lucene” and abstract.  The first session is a 3 hour “University” course, the second talk is a 1 hour succinct version.

Solr powers the search of many enterprise applications, and long before Solr shone on enterprise search, Lucene – Solr’s core library, was and still is used to…

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After many months of hard work, Solr 1.4 is completed and released. To learn more about the 1.4 release, check out:

• Read the “What’s New in Apache Solr 1.4” White Paper
• And view the webinar: “Solr 1.4 – Faster, Easier and more Versatile than Ever” featuring Erik Hatcher

The Certified Distribution of Solr 1.4, the fully tested version with lots of useful tools and 30 days free getting started assistance, will follow shortly. Click here to be informed when…

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