Tag Archives: lucene

Becoming a committer

Posted on 2011-06-16 by janhoy

The Apache way of developing open source software relies on an active community of users, contributors and developers. All of us can contribute in some way or another. Being a committer means that you participate actively in the software development … Continue reading →

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Solr architecture diagram

Posted on 2011-04-04 by janhoy

We at Cominvent have often had the need to visualize the internal architecture of Apache Solr in order to explain both the relationships of the components as well as the flow of data and queries. The result is this conceptual … Continue reading →

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Visualization of Lucene segment merges

Posted on 2011-02-24 by janhoy

Lucene guru Mike McCandless just released on his blog an impressive piece of work visualizing how Lucene MergePolicy really works through a series of YouTube videos. He feeds Solr with a 10Gb Wikipedia dump and also some random add/delete data … Continue reading →

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Cominvent pioneers Solr Training in Scandinavia

Posted on 2010-01-20 by janhoy

Cominvent is the first company in Scandinavia to offer professional classroom training for the Open Source search engine Apache Solr. Last week we conducted a training in Denmark, and we plan for a regular schedule in Oslo and on-demand elsewhere … Continue reading →

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Solr does GEO search

Posted on 2009-11-20 by janhoy

Apache Solr is a very capable enterprise search platform, doing most things you would expect from such a solution. But what about GEO sensitive applications like Yellow-pages, maps search, sort by distance to X etc? The big commercial systems such … Continue reading →

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