Lucene @ Yelp
Presented by Sudarshan Gaikaiwari, Yelp at Lucene Revolution 2011
This talk describes how the Yelp uses Lucene to provide search services. It includes
- Statistics of Yelp search usage
- Overview of Yelp search architecture: Yelp uses different services to provide searches for different types of data. Some are based on Lucene and some on SOLR
- Deeper dive into business and review search. This is the most important search service at Yelp.
We will cover:
- Yelp's implementation of a micro sharded architecture and differences with Katta.
- Yelp extensions to Lucene to implement features such as filters and performance comparison with solr/Bobo
- Yelp's implementation of index replication.
- Various tricks used at Yelp to make the service faster.
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