White Papers & Case Studies
Our enterprise search experts have developed some valuable information to help you through the process of evaluating and selecting search solutions for your organization. We are happy to share this information with you in the White Papers below.
We have also documented several Case Studies that demonstrate how real businesses have implemented or migrated to Lucene/Solr and have shared some insight on how it impacted their business.
Indexing Text and HTML Files with Solr
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This tutorial provides clear, step-by-step instructions on how to index local text files, local HTML files, and remote HTML files. It is intended for those who have already worked through the Solr Tutorial or equivalent.
White Paper: The Case for Lucene/Solr: A Manager’s Guide to Real World Open Source Search Applications
This paper provides an overview of both the requirements and the opportunities for search applications. It then explores how real world organizations are successfully using Lucene/Solr search applications to meet those opportunities, presenting how the technology is used for specific business models and use cases across industries. In addition, it offers a baseline for setting search requirements that managers and architects can use to adopt Lucene/Solr, and adapt this open source search technology to the unique needs of their business.
Business Use Case Study: The Motley Fool Migrates from Google Search Appliance to Apache Solr/Lucene Open Source Search
The Motley Fool's award-winning website, Fool.com, publishes hundreds of articles each week, with over four million unique visitors and 11 million sessions per month. They chose to replace their Google Search Appliance with Solr -- and hired Lucid Imagination to ensure successful implementation. “Lucene and Solr can definitely do what any commercial or proprietary search tool can do - certainly as well, or better, “ says Chad Wolfsheimer, VP of Technical Operations, Fool.com.
Business Use Case Study: DollarDays Cashes In After Move to Solr
- Successfully transitioned from database search to commercial search to Solr
- Scaled search features quickly and flexibly with the growth of the business
- Quick, convenient index updating without heavy hardware footprint significantly reduces TCO
Case Study: Comcast Chooses Solr For New Entertainment Search Platform
Comcast Corporation is one of the largest providers of entertainment, information and communication products and services, with over 24 million cable customers, 15 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million phone customers. Its Comcast Interactive Media (CIM) division is chartered to develop and grow the company's Internet businesses. CIM’s Fancast.com–an extensive on-line video collection of television shows, movies, trailers and clips–gets over 10 million unique users per month. Users can browse and search across the site’s 4M+ content items to find the entertainment they want.
Lucid Customer Business Use Case: Boomi Unlocks the Cloud with Solr
- Fast growing cloud integration company delivers Platform-as-a-Service for integration of on-premise and cloud-based business process apps
- Solr-based search monitors and maintains customer application logs for service level and transaction tracking
- One instance of Solr utilized for multi-tenant platform, delivering application monitoring and analytics securely directly to Boomi customers
- Met aggressive speed and scale goals, with index commits of new data at 5 seconds or less and scale up to 20 million new index entries per day
Lucid Imagination Customer Business Use Case: Online Auto Site uses Solr to find revenue
- Accelerated migration from legacy proprietary search solution to Solr in 30 days
- Optimized search strategy with help from Lucid Imagination by refining data and document structures, reducing search field count by 200x
- Fine-grained control of search relevance drives revenue increase by keeping customers on-site
White Paper: What’s New in Apache Lucene 2.9
With the new release of version 2.9, Apache Lucene is now faster and more flexible than before. Learn about these new features and improvements:
- Near-real-time search
- Flexible indexing and segments
- High-performance numerical range queries
- New APIs introduced
- Critical bug fixes
Download this white paper and learn about these new features, plus a special section on how to migration -- essential how to's on migrating from earlier versions to Lucene 2.9.
Lucid Imagination Customer Business Use Case: Streamlining and Standardizing Open Source Search
Lucid Imagination helped a large not-for-profit research institute streamline and standardize their Solr search implementation with:
- On-site benchmark and analysis of Solr search framework and custom code modules
- Best practices recommendations on scalable architecture and overall efficiencies
- Guidance and assistance on setting up a replicated search environment
Lucid Imagination Customer Business Use Case: Solr Migration and Consolidation For Online Search and Advertising Company
Lucid Imagination helped an online search and advertising company move to Solr from a proprietary commercial search platform:
- Migrated search to Solr by replacing a commercial solution and returning search application support to in-house resources
- Consolidated search footprint from over 130 servers to about 2 dozen
- Provided guidance on integrating Web 2.0 data into search results, such as user comments, reviews, and location
White Paper: What’s New in Apache Solr 1.4
Solr is now faster and better than before!
Read this white paper and learn about these new features, including:
- enhanced data import capabilities
- rich document handling
- speedier numeric range queries
- duplicate detection
- java-based replication and deployment
- smarter handling of index changes
- faster faceting
- streamlined caching
- and more
McClatchy Interactive
McClatchy Company, the 3rd largest newspaper publisher in the US, is tacking into online new strategies in the face of stiff economic headwinds. Open source technologies help drive McClatchy's business model by minimizing the both capital and operational costs without compromise in customer experience. Solr has already helped McClatchy Interactive properties reduce costs dramatically, while improving on the same high quality of service to its online readers.
Case Study: Library/Catalog: Europeana - bringing European culture online
Europeana.eu is the official digital library, museum and archive of the European union. A collection of collections, this single, unifying web portal connects users with millions of digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers, and archival papers. Using Solr, Europeana users can find the cultural treasure they are looking for, searching through millions of objects across thousands of years, in 26 European languages. Solr search provides sophisticated browsing and searching capabilities to find paintings, photographs, objects, books, newspapers, archival records, films and sound that have been digitized by Europe's heritage organizations.
Europeana - bringing European culture online
Europeana.eu is the official digital library, museum and archive of the European union. A collection of collections, this single, unifying web portal connects users with millions of digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers, and archival papers. Using Solr, Europeana users can find the cultural treasure they are looking for, searching through millions of objects across thousands of years, in 26 European languages. Solr search provides sophisticated browsing and searching capabilities to find paintings, photographs, objects, books, newspapers, archival records, films and sound that have been digitized by Europe's heritage organizations.
White Paper: Guidelines for Managers: What Lucene and Solr Open Source Search can do for Enterprise Search
Companies like Netflix, Zappos and Monster have all utilized Lucene/Solr, an open-source search development environment ideally suited for large-scale, enterprise search applications. Download this free white paper and
- organize your enterprise search requirements from both technological and economic perspectives
- identify the technological and economic advantages of Lucene/Solr open source search
- learn about support available for designing, developing, and deploying the necessary search solution
Guidelines for Managers: What Lucene and Solr Open Source Search can do for Enterprise Search
Companies like Netflix, Zappos and Monster have all utilized Lucene/Solr, an open-source search development environment ideally suited for large-scale, enterprise search applications. Download this free white paper and
- organize your enterprise search requirements from both technological and economic perspectives
- identify the technological and economic advantages of Lucene/Solr open source search
- learn about support available for designing, developing, and deploying the necessary search solution
Good Information Is Hard to Find: Guidelines for Managers Considering Open Source Enterprise Search
Open source is a very good solution for implementing search across your enterprise. Download this free white paper and learn about the advantages of open source:
- Lower costs
- Pay at the point of value
- Transparent development
- Lower overall risk
- Professional support from the technology experts
Companies like Netflix, Monster and StubHub have all embraced Lucene/Solr open source search technology. Download this white paper and learn how open source search can help your business.
White Paper: Good Information Is Hard to Find: Guidelines for Managers Considering Open Source Enterprise Search
Open source is a very good solution for implementing search across your enterprise. Download this free white paper and learn about the advantages of open source:
- Lower costs
- Pay at the point of value
- Transparent development
- Lower overall risk
- Professional support from the technology experts
Companies like Netflix, Monster and StubHub have all embraced Lucene/Solr open source search technology. Download this white paper and learn how open source search can help your business.
White Paper: Starting a Search Application
If you think you need a search application, there are some useful first steps to take:
- validating that full-text search is the right technology
- producing sets of ideal results you'd like to return for a range of queries
- considering the value of supplementing a basic search result list with document clustering
- producing more specific requirements and investigating technology options
This white paper will help you think about your search application and describes the steps you should be considering before you get started.