Mark Bennett, Author at Lucidworks

Articles by Mark Bennett

Notes on DIH Architecture: Solr’s Data Import Handler

What the world really needs are some awesome examples of extending DIH (Solr DataImportHanlder), beyond the classes and unit tests...

Commercial vs. Open Source Language Packs: An Interview with Andrew Paulsen, Regional Director at Basis Technology

Today we're talking with Andrew Paulsen of Basis Technology about their commercial language packs. Since Basis first came to market,...

Taxonomies vs. Facets: What’s Best for YOUR Site?

Although search engines sometimes return the "perfect" document at the top of the results list, this is often not the...

SearchComponents, RequestHandlers, Spellcheckers

I spend most of my configuration time in Solr's schema.xml, but the solrconfig.xml is also a really powerful tool. I...

Transitioning from Databases to Search Engines

Lucid recently did a customer survey about Solr and Lucene usage. One of the comments that caught my eye was...