White Papers
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.