Today, the Apache Software Foundation officially announced the release of Apache Solr 4.0.0 and Apache Lucene 4.0.0. An annotated version of the "Release Highlights" can be found below. The Significance of 4.0.0 These 4.0.0 releases are over 2 years in... Read More

General Solr Features Based on Apache Lucene Search Library Complete query capabilities, such as keyword, Boolean and +/- queries. Also supports proximity searches, wildcards, fielded searches, term/field/document weights, find-similar, spell-checking, auto-suggest, multi-lingual and more. Sort by relevancy, date, or any... Read More

This is part 10 in a (never ending?) series of articles on Indexing and Searching the ISFDB.org data using Solr. Circumstances have conspired to keep my away from this series longer then I had intended, So today I want to... Read More

Solr Cell, a new feature in the soon to be released Solr 1.4, allows users to send in rich documents such as MS Word and Adobe PDF directly into Solr and have them indexed for search.  All of the examples... Read More