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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