Articles by Mark Miller

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SolrCloud is Coming (and looking to mix in even more ‘NoSQL’)

The second phase of SolrCloud has been in full swing for a couple of months now and it looks like...
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Lucene/Solr 3.5 Released

Official release announcement for Lucene/Solr 3.5: November 27 2011, Apache Lucene™ 3.5.0 available   The Lucene PMC is pleased to...
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Running Solr as a Service on Linux

Let’s install Solr as a service on Linux. I’m using Ubuntu 11.04 First download the latest version of Solr from...
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Benchmarking the new Solr ‘Near Realtime’ Improvements.

I’ve been working on integrating Solr into the Lucene benchmark module, and I’ve gotten the code to the point of...
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Solr Dev Diary: Solr and Near Real-Time Search

Solr’s UpdateHandler has gotten a little crusty. Many of the implementation details are there due to old,  tired,  and removed...
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Garbage Collection Bootcamp 1.0

Table Of Contents What is Garbage Collection Tuning Garbage Collection The Garbage Collectors Choosing a Collector What is Garbage Collection...
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Search Technology Scaling Lucene And Solr
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Scaling Lucene and Solr

Need to scale solr? Here's how to configure to manage large indexes and high volume queries.
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[ANNOUNCE] Solr 1.4.1 Released

Apache Solr 1.4.1 has been released and is now available for public download! http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ Solr is the popular, blazing fast...
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[ANNOUNCE] Release of Lucene Java 3.0.2 and 2.9.3

Hello Lucene users, On behalf of the Lucene development community I would like to announce the release of Lucene Java...
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Lucene and Solr Development Have Merged

The Lucene community has recently decided to merge the development of two of its sub-projects – Lucene->Java and Lucene->Solr. Both...
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Lucene 2.9.2 and 3.0.1

The vote is on for what I think is a Lucene first - two simultaneous bug fix releases. Because the...
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Lucene 2.9.1 Released

We were all so caught up in the fun at ApacheCon that no one announced the Lucene 2.9.1 release. Its...
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