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Performance of Google’s V8 Javascript engine in Solr

The use of scripting languages to add new functionality to systems is something that I've always found very helpful. You...
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Stop being so agreeable!

I confess, this is heavily influenced by the eXtreme Programming folks, but I see it recur again and again: we...
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Hadoop lets you store everything; with Lucene/Solr and more, you can find what you’re looking for

This month's Wired Magazine features a story on the roots of Hadoop at Yahoo and the three companies vying to...
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Multivalued geolocation fields in Solr

Today we'll see a small workaround that can be used to accomplish a very common use case regarding geographic search....
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Search for Knowledge Is Now Open

Search is the circulatory system for knowledge. It excels at finding data and information, from which knowledge is constructed. Search...
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Monitoring Apache Solr and Lucidworks with Zabbix

If you’re running Apache Solr in production, you count on it to deliver solid performance and expect it to be...
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Lucene goes from Enterprise Search to search platform

Somewhere in the soap opera that might be titled 'As Hewlett Packard Turns', the question of the impact of the...
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Stump The Chump? Win A Prize!

One month from today we'll be kicking off Apache Lucene Eurocon in Barcelona, and I will once again be in...
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Programmers Guide to Open Source Search: Apache Solr / Lucene 3.4

With the merging of Apache Lucene and Apache Solr into a single codebase, the release of Solr 3.4 brings with...
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Lucene and Solr 3.4.0 Released

The Apache Lucene community has just released Lucene 3.4.0 and Solr 3.4.0. You can read the official announcements here and...
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MurmurHash3 for Java

Background I needed a really good hash function for the distributed indexing we're implementing for Solr. Since it will be...
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What’s new in Apache Solr 3.4: New Programmer’s Guide available

Yesterday's announcement of the release of Solr 3.4 brings with it a host of welcome improvements that make search-related applications...
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