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Estimating Memory and Storage for Lucene/Solr

Many times, clients ask us to help them estimate memory usage or disk space usage or to share benchmarks as...
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Flexible ranking in Lucene 4

Over the summer I served as a Google Summer of Code mentor for David Nemeskey, PhD student at Eötvös Loránd...
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Learn Lucene… deeper

You're using Solr, or some other Lucene-based search solutions, ... or you should and will be!  You are (or will...
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Lucene/Solr wins Infoworld’s Bossie for Best of Open Source

Congratulations again to Lucene/Solr -- winner of the Best of Open Source Software BOSSIE award from Infoworld.com for Open Source...
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Solr’s Realtime Get

Solr took another step toward increasing its NoSQL datastore capabilities, with the addition of realtime get. Background As readers probably...
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Indexing rich files into Solr, quickly and easily

This past weekend I presented yet another "Rapid Prototyping with Solr" presentation, this time back in the saddle with the...
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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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Solr Powered ISFDB – Part #11: Using DisMax

This is part 11 in a (never ending?) series of articles on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr....
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Don’t Use Java 7, For Anything

Java 7 GA was released today, but as noted by Uwe Schindler, there are some very frightening bugs in HotSpot...
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Box.net moves to Solr – 10X faster search, indexing 1M docs/day

Box.net, the cloud-based content-management system based here in Silicon Valley, recently flipped the switch and moved to Solr / Lucene...
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Now Available: Lucidworks Certified Distributions, for Solr 3.2 and Lucene 3.2

Lucidworks Certified Distribution for Solr 3.2 and Lucidworks Certified Distribution for Lucene 3.2 are now available for download from Lucid...
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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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