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Indexing Performance in Solr 5.2 (now twice as fast)

About this time last year (June 2014), I introduced the Solr Scale Toolkit and published some indexing performance metrics for...
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What’s new in Apache Solr 5.2

Apache Lucene and Solr 5.2.0 were just released with tons of new features, optimizations, and bug fixes. Here are the...
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Query Autofiltering Extended – On Language and Logic in Search

Spock: The logical thing for you to have done was to have left me behind. McCoy: Mr. Spock, remind me...
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Lucidworks Fusion Now Available in AWS Marketplace

While it’s been easy to download and install Fusion on your own machine, we’ve worked with Amazon Web Services to...
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Data Analytics Using Fusion and Logstash

Use Lucidworks Fusion and Logstash Logstash to analyze Fusion's logfiles.
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Hyperloglog Tutorial: Cardinality Stats in Solr 5.2

Following in the footsteps of the percentile support added to Solr's StatsComponent in 5.1, Solr 5.2 will add efficient set...
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Infographic: The Woes of the CIOs

It's tough out there for CIOs. They're getting it from all sides and from all directions. Let's take a look...
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Alert! Alert! Alert! (Implementing Alerts in Lucidworks Fusion)

We live in a streaming world.  Tweets, updates, documents, logs, etc. are flowing in all around us all the time,...
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Integrating Storm and Solr

In this post I introduce a new open source project provided by Lucidworks for integrating Solr and Storm. Specifically, I...
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Lucidworks Fusion 1.4 Now Available

We’ve just released Lucidworks Fusion 1.4! This version is a Short-Term Support, or "preview" release of Fusion. There are a...
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Custom Security Filtering in Solr 5.x

A customer that had implemented custom security filtering in Solr 3.x, and then moved to 4.x, recently worked with us to...
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Why Query Autofiltering Needs to Be More Precise

In a previous blog post, I introduced the concept of “query autofiltering”, which is the process of using the meta...
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