Lucene/Solr 4.0 beta er ute

Denne uken ble ß versjonen av Apache Lucene/Solr sluppet, se release annonseringen. Det betyr at ting begynner å bli stabilt og vi nærmer oss den endelige 4.0 – etter laaaang tid i “ovnen”… De viktigste endringene er kanskje bedre modenhet for SolrCloud pluss masse feilretting. Så hvis du behøver enkelheten i skalering som SolrCloud gir så er

Lucene/Solr 4.0 Beta is out

This week the ß version of Apache Lucene/Solr was released, see release announcement. This means that things are getting stable and approaching the FINAL release – after a looong time in the makings. The most important changes is perhaps better maturity for SolrCloud along with a lot of bug fixes. If you need the ease of

Amazon releases CloudSearch

Amazon has really impressed me with their efficient and simple cloud solutions. Last week they announced a hosted search solution in their cloud, named CloudSearch. The idea is the same as for all the other cloud services, namely that they take care of all the hosting, provisioning and scaling (CloudSearch can auto-scale) while you concentrate on indexing and searching.