Recently, Uwe Schindler and others have added a new capability to Lucene and Solr to make working with numeric ranges a lot faster.  I haven’t tried out this new functionality yet, so I thought I would walk through it here and explore it’s capabilities.

Since Lucene treats most everything as Strings, encoding  numbers and dates and then utilizing them in ranges has always required a little extra work to make it perform well.  Previously, one…

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