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 alexeyOctober 2, 2011
If you’re running Apache Solr in production, you count on it to deliver solid performance and expect it to be up at all times. Even if you tested your setup with expected data and query load, things can go wrong. Solving those problems as they appear, not only causes service downtime, but is a very unpleasant task. Imagine sleepless nights trying to figure out why your production system went down with an OutOfMemory error. Similar …
By Sarath JarugulaApril 6, 2011
LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 release is officially announced today. You can find the announcement here. LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 is a quick successor to LucidWorks Enterprise 1.6, released in Dec 2010. This release builds on our promise to enable enterprises to build search applications easily with Solr, the world’s leading open source search. You can download the LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 here.
Our main objective with the 1.7 release is to provide you with improved enterprise …
By Grant IngersollJanuary 25, 2011
During a past ecommerce webinar with Brian Doll of Sheetmusicplus.com, I posted a checklist of items that are commonly occurring in many ecommerce applications and then I waved my hands, due to time constraints, and said Solr (and now LucidWorks) can do almost all of them out of the box and left the rest as an exercise for the reader. (Note, the slides are available here. Registration required.) Well, now I …
By Grant IngersollDecember 27, 2010
After a week off to enjoy time with my family, I thought I would kick off the last week of 2010 with a look back at the year as it relates to the Apache Lucene ecosystem. For anyone who follows the amalgamation of projects that I like to call the Lucene Ecosystem (the Apache projects: Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, PyLucene, Lucy, Lucene.NET, Droids, ManifoldCF — Lucene Connector Framework, OpenNLP and UIMA) you know it …
By adminDecember 6, 2010
Thank you to all who joined our Lucid Query Parser session last Wednesday. If you didn’t, catch up with the recorded session here.
The Lucid Query Parser is distributed as part of LucidWorks Enterprise, and it enhances your users’ ability to pinpoint information to be retrieved from LucidWorks Enterprise. Some LucidWorks Enterprise developers have opted to allow their users the full power of the parser, which is a viable strategy, as the parser is …
By adminNovember 22, 2010
I’d like to thank you again for attending the LucidWorks Enterprise demonstration last Wednesday. For those of you, who didn’t, pick up the recorded version here to catch up.
During the demo, you presented me with questions about LucidWorks Enterprise. I was able to answer some of them immediately following the demo; however, our timeslot for the demo caught up with us, so some were left unanswered. The team here at Lucid Imagination helped me capture …
By adminNovember 18, 2010
We’re happy to announce the availability of the latest release of LucidWorks Certified Distribution for Solr.
LucidWorks for Solr v1.4.1 is a bugfix release for LucidWorks for Solr, incorporating Apache Solr release 1.4.1, with few additional bugfixes that were introduced post Solr 1.4.1
LucidWorks for Solr v1.4.1 is tested to work with Windows, Linux and Mac.
Grab your copy from our downloads section
Changes and additions from Apache Solr 1.4
* SOLR-1902: Upgraded Tika to …
By Erik HatcherNovember 5, 2010
At ApacheCon this week I presented “Rapid Prototyping with Solr”. This is the third time I’ve given a presentation with the same title. In the spirit of the rapid prototyping theme, each time I’ve created a new prototype just a day or so prior to presenting it. At Lucene EuroCon the prototype used attendee data, a treemap visualization, and a cute little Solr-powered “app” for picking attendees at random for the conference giveaways. For …
By adminOctober 14, 2010
Last week at Lucene Revolution we announced LucidWorks Enterprise. LucidWorks Enterprise is a commercially supported search platform that builds on the power of Apache Lucene and Solr to deliver a flexible and scalable search platform.
Gee. That almost sounds like a marketing guy wrote it. Let me try again: LucidWorks Enterprise is software that let’s you easily build great search applications. You can install it, index some content, and search that content with just a …