Uchida Spectrum on Solr/Lucene and LucidWorks
This week, the ArnoldIT blog Beyond Search features an interview with Rahul Agarwalla, technical executive at Uchida Spectrum, a leading search system integrator in Japan. Uchida Spectrum pioneered...
View ArticleLucene/Solr wins Infoworld’s Bossie for Best of Open Source
Congratulations again to Lucene/Solr — winner of the Best of Open Source Software BOSSIE award from Infoworld.com for Open Source Applications for the 2d year in a row: Do you need to find something...
View ArticleArticle: Bad vs Good Search Experience
A great demonstration on how Apache Lucene/Solr can provide dramatic improvements to Enterprise Search. The author takes a local ad site as an example of a bad search experience and then compares the...
View ArticleArticle: HPCC: An Open Source Big Data Competitor to Hadoop
This article discusses an Open Source alternative to Hadoop: HPCC (High-Performance Computing Cluster). HPCC was developed by LexisNexis Risk Solutions and is released under an Apache 2.0 license and...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Pitfalls : Scaling Enterprise Search to the Extreme
An excellent video with pdf presentation by the top architects at Pinterest on how they scaled their stack while facing incredible growth to achieve billions of page views per month. Starting with a...
View ArticleArticle: Apache Pig: Beginnings
As you know Pig is a member of the Hadoop ecosystem and is a framework for analyzing large data sets (and a first-class Apache project at pig.apache.org). This article is a mini-tutorial and shows how...
View ArticleArticle: A programmer’s guide to big data: 12 tools to know
This article discusses the recent trend by companies where they are building tools designed with developers’ needs and skills in mind. They are providing tools such as simple scripts that result in...
View ArticleLucene/Solr 4 – Management & Administrative User Interface
Interested in Lucene/Solr 4? Want to see how the User Interface stacks up? For many enterprise IT customers, while they do need specific/feature functions in a solution, they also greatly care about...
View ArticleArticle: Apache Solr – Slow queries and frequent terms
Interesting article that presents findings that demonstrate the effect of term frequency and number of frequent terms in a single query on search performance. The author finds that the slowest queries...
View ArticleExpertise in Solr & Lucene? Want to Contribute to SearchHub? Have a Great Topic?
We are looking for new contributors! Do you have a topic/post you believe the Lucene / Solr community would be interested in? Have you discovered a new or better way to get the best out of Lucene/Solr?...
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