Mark your calendars today! The largest worldwide conference dedicated to Lucene and Solr will take place in Boston May 7-10.

The 2012 conference will build on the success of last year’s Lucene Revolution in San Francisco. Sponsored by Lucid Imagination with additional support from community and other commercial co-sponsors, we’ll be adding new sessions, new speakers, and new training sessions to the agenda. Lucid Imagination is the commercial entity exclusively dedicated to Apache Lucene/Solr open …

Read more

The second phase of SolrCloud has been in full swing for a couple of months now and it looks like we are going to be able to commit this work to trunk very soon! In Phase1 we built on top of Solr’s distributed search capabilities and added cluster state, central config, and built-in read side fault tolerance. Phase 2 is even more ambitious and focuses on the write side. We are talking full-blown fault tolerance for reads …

Read more

The Solr Reference Guide has been updated for the 3.5 release of Solr and Lucene. Only minor changes were needed this time around. In particular, we added information on:

• Support for the Hunspell stemmer
• The new langid UpdateProcessor
• Numeric types now support sortMissingFirst/Last
• New parameter hl.q for use with highlighting
• Field types supported by the StatsComponent now includes date and string fields

The Solr Reference Guide is available for free online or as a downloadable …

Read more

Date: Thursday, January 19, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: 12200 Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA

The latest Los Angeles/ OC Apache Lucene/Solr User group meeting was held at Shopzilla in LA. We had Grant Ingersoll from Lucid Imagination speaking at the event. In this talk, Grant spoke about some of the tools available (recommendations, faceting options, amongst others) in Solr and Mahout to aid in the discovery process and how these two …

Read more

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 …

Read more

LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0.1 is an interim bug-fix release. We have resolved a couple of critical bugs and LDAP integration issues. The list of issues resolved with this updates are available here.

Download

You can download the latest version 2.0.1 here.

Install

If you are running LucidWorks Enterprise 1.7 or LucidWorks 1.8, you can use the upgrade scripts and move to version 2.0.1.

For those of you running LucidWorks Enterprise 2.0, you can now …

Read more

The next JavaMUG meeting is on December 14th 2011. Erik Hatcher from Lucid Imagination will be presenting at the event. He will talk about Apache Solr, its features and benefits. This will be an introductory Solr talk.

Apache Solr serves search requests at enterprises and the largest companies around the world. Built on top of the top–notch Apache Lucene library, Solr makes indexing and searching integration into your applications straightforward.

Solr provides faceted navigation, spell …

Read more

Wildcard query terms aren’t analyzed, why is that?

Prior to the current 3x branch (which will be released as 3.6) and the trunk (4.0) Solr code, users have frequently been perplexed by wildcard searching being un-analyzed, often manifesting in case sensitivity. Say you have an analysis chain in your schema.xml file defined as follows and a field named lc_field of this type:

<fieldType name="lowercase" class="solr.TextField" >
  <tokenizer class="solr.WhitespaceTokenizerFactory"/>
  <filter class="solr.LowercaseFilterFactory" />
</fieldType>

Now, you index …

Read more

Official release announcement for Lucene/Solr 3.5:

November 27 2011, Apache Lucene™ 3.5.0 available

The Lucene PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Lucene 3.5.0.

Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine

library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly

any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.

This release contains numerous bug fixes, optimizations, and

improvements, some of which are highlighted below.  The release…

Read more

Solr Reference Guide version 3.4 is now available. The Reference Guide is designed to provide descriptions of  all the important feature and functions of the LucidWorks for Solr Certified Distribution. You can either view it online or download it. It will be of use at any point in the application lifecycle, whether you needed detailed information about Solr or you are just getting started.…

Read more