Solr Schema less Indexing

Posted by Barnaby on 2 December 2011 | 42 Comments

Use the schema.xml, Luke

Indexing into Solr needn't be fixed to fields defined up front in schema.xml. Underneath Solr, Lucene is schemaless and fields can be added on a per document basis. Some may argue it beat NoSQL to flexible schemas by some years!

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Hadoop

Posted by Barnaby on 28 November 2011 | 14 Comments

We've recently been evaluating Hadoop for a "Big Data" project. Here's some rough notes from first experiences.

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UK government open source list - SOLR / Lucene

Posted by Ian on 7 November 2011 | 16 Comments

The UK government cabinet office website contains guidelines on the use of open source to replace commercial and proprietary software.  SOLR / Lucene and  Xapian are listed as alternative technologies to FAST, Autonomy and Exalead.

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Lucene EuroCon 2011 Summary

Posted by Barnaby on 25 October 2011 | 24 Comments

Some of the notable talks from Lucene EuroCon 2011 last week in Barcelona:

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Scaling SOLR on Amazon EC2 - go big

Posted by Barnaby on 29 July 2011 | 27 Comments

Tags: SOLR, EC2, Scaling, Search, price per search, performance, solr benchmarking

Running solr on Amazon ec2 presents new challenges and opportunities in picking the best way to arrange your indexes across multiple instances. This post looks into ec2 sizing, performance and benchmarking.

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FAST on the decline?

Posted by Artirix on 25 July 2011 | 30 Comments

http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2011/07/11/not-so-fast/

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David vs Goliath (or Solr vs FAST)

Posted by Barnaby on 20 July 2011 | 474 Comments

Tags: SOLR, performance, FAST, search, benchmarking

This is a benchmark of the legacy FAST search engine (ESP 5.1) and Solr 1.4.

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Artirix powers wsj com real estate search

Posted by Artirix on 13 April 2011 | 30 Comments

Tags: wjs.com, customers, classified

Wall Street Journal Real Estate, the leading premium real estate portal in the USA launches a new real estate search portal powered by Artirix, a leading innovator in search based web technology. The platform replaces a legacy solution which was unable to offer the flexibility to meet the businesses future requirements.

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