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Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 4.3.1. This is a minor bugfix release. Apache Lucene 4.3.1 library can be downloaded from the following address: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/. Apache Solr 4.3.1can be downloaded at the following URL address: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/. Release note for Apache Lucene 4.3.1 [...]
The number of different query parsers in Solr was always an amusement for me. Can someone here say how many of them are currently available and say what are those? Anyway, in this entry we won’t be talking about all the query parsers available in Solr, but we will take a quick look at one [...]
With the release of Solr 4.2 we’ve got the possibility to use the HTTP protocol to get information about Solr index structure. Of course, if one wanted to do that prior to Solr 4.2 it could be achieved by fetching the schema.xml file, parsing it and then getting the needed information. However when Solr 4.2 [...]
Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 4.3. This is a next release continuing the 4th version of both Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. Here are some of the changes that were made comparing to the 4.2 version: Lucene Major improvement to BooleanQuery [...]
With the release of Solr 4.3 we’ve got a long awaited feature – we can now split shards of collections that were already created and have data (in SolrCloud type deployment). In this entry we would like to try that feature and see how it works. So let’s do it.
Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 4.2.1. This is a minor bugfix release. Apache Lucene 4.2.1 library can be downloaded from the following address: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/java/. Apache Solr 4.2.1 can be downloaded at the following URL address: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/. Please remember that the mirrors [...]
And now two birds with a single stone – a new article and the Apache Solr 4 Cookbook giveaway results. In this article we would like to show you how to implement random ordering of documents in the resulting using Apache Solr. Our example is real case scenario – we’ve used this to draw two [...]
In the previous blog post about auto complete on multi-valued field we discussed how highlighting can help us get the information we are interested in. We also promised that we will get back to the topic and we will show how to achieve a similar functionality with the use of Solr faceting capabilities. So, let’s [...]
Readers would be pleased to know that we have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of the Apache Solr 4 Cookbook. Two lucky winners will win a copy of the book (in eBook format). Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky Winners.
Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 4.2. This is a next release continuing the 4th version of both Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. Here are some of the changes that were made comparing to the 4.1 version: Lucene New, default codec with [...]
