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When is Solr Really the Best Tool?

The session, "Use Case Diagnosis - When is Solr Really the Best Tool?," by Michael Hausenblas, Chief Data Engineer at MapR,...
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Ramp Up Your UX Using Drupal and Apache Solr

Drupal and Apache Solr search are a potent combination in the move towards "digital experiences" online. It is behind a...
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From Using Verity and Oracle to Solr

The juris portal provides access to legal information (about 6.5 mil documents) and information about German companies (about 23 mil...
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What is in a Lucene Index?

Although people usually come to Lucene and related solutions in order to make data searchable, they often realize that it...
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First Class Integration of Solr with Hadoop

During the session, "The First Class Integration of Solr with Hadoop," Apache Lucene/Solr Committer, Mark Miller talks about how Solr has been...
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Using Lucene for Very Fast Stored Queries

As part of their work with large media monitoring companies, Flax has developed a technique for applying tens of thousands...
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Text Classification with Solr, Hadoop, LibSVM

In the Lucene/Solr Revolution session, "Text Classification with Lucene/Solr, Apache Hadoop and LibSVM," Majirus Fansi, SOA and Search Engine Developer at...
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Trick the Chump, Win a Treat!

Tomorrow, people all over the world will be shouting "Trick Or Treat!?" But one week from today people from all...
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Faceted Search with Lucene

Faceted search is a powerful technique to let users easily navigate the search results. It can also be used to...
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Relevancy Hacks for Ecommerce

The Lucene/Solr Revolution session, "Relevancy Hacks for eCommerce," is aimed at providing an understanding of how the ranking of documents works...
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Querying Rich Text with XQuery

Solr and Lucene provide a powerful, scalable search server. XQuery provides a rich querying and programming model for use with...
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JSON Search and Relational Faceted Browsing with Lucene

In the Lucene/Solr Revolution session, "High Performance JSON Search and Relational Faceted Browsing with Lucene," Renaud Delbru, Co-Founder of SindiceTech, will...
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