Whitepapers
Programmer's Guide: Using LucidWorks Enterprise to add Search to your Web Application
Getting search right in your web app means indexing all the content and delivering results that match user's real needs. This guide shows how LucidWorks Enterprise makes it faster and easier for you to take a programmatic, methodical approach.
Read more.Getting Started With LucidWorks Enterprise
LucidWorks is the search platform that delivers full open source Apache Lucene/Solr community innovation in a convenient, commercial-grade package, with support from the world's leading experts in open source search. Here's how to begin.
Read more.Search for Knowledge is Now Open
Because search excels at finding data and information, it is in effect the circulatory system for knowledge. The more generalizable the search technology, the better it works for knowledge management. Lucene/Solr is ideally suited to the task.
Read more.Market Research White Paper | Enterprise Search: Commodity or Revolution?
New research by Aberdeen Group finds that as growing supplies of data meet the demand for actionable information, best in class organizations increasingly turn to search technologies; those using open source have cut their search costs in half.
Programmer’s Guide to Open Source Search Search: What’s New in Apache Solr / Lucene 3.4
With the merging of Apache Lucene and Apache Solr into a single codebase, the release of Solr 3.4 brings with it a host of welcome improvements, introduced in the releases over the past few months, that make search-related applications more powerful, faster, and easier to build. In this paper, you will learn about new search capabilities, performance improvements, new options for building search applications, what to expect in Solr 4, and more.
Applying Social Strategies to Search with LucidWorks Enterprise
Social search determines result relevance by combining traditional similarity algorithms with what humans think about that similarity. LucidWorks Enterprise helps you leverage social search when building your own search apps.
Read more.Migrating from FAST to Solr: Expert Panel Discussion Paper
Since the purchase of Fast Search and Transfer by Microsoft in 2008, users of the FAST ESP Platform have faced a mounting series of challenges. The discontinuation of the Linux platform and the subordination of FAST features into Sharepoint have created a greater sense of urgency to seek out alternatives.
Read more.LucidWorks Enterprise: Critical Success Factors for Building and Deploying Search Applications
This IT Briefing by TechTarget provides an overview of LucidWorks Enterprise, the platform that makes search app development easier for application developers and architect to make search a core part of content-and-data intensive applications.
Search Readiness Checklist: Moving to Solr/Lucene Open Source Search
Building a new search app? Getting a critical search app off of a legacy platform? Use this checklist to help smooth the transition to open source: assess key technical elements of your app, fit Solr/Lucene to your business needs, and more.
Programmer’s Guide: Full-Text Search Over RDBMS Data
Step-by-step guidelines for veteran DB developers that show how to take on search with Solr, including comparison of conventional SQL-driven programming with the Solr's approach -- for better results with far less programming effort.
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