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 do it.
Author: Rafał Kuć
Win Free Copies of Packt’s new book on Apache Solr (updated)
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.
Apache Lucene and Solr 4.2
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.
Autocomplete on multivalued fields using highlighting
One of the recent topics I came across was auto complete feature based on Solr multi-valued fields (for example, this question was asked on Stack Overflow). Let’s look what possibilities we have.
Developing Your Own Solr Filter part 2
In the previous entry “Developing Your Own Solr Filter” we’ve shown how to implement a simple filter and how to use it in Apache Solr. Recently, one of our readers asked if we can extend the topic and show how to write more than a single token into the token stream. We decided to go for it and extend the previous blog entry about filter implementation.
Apache Lucene and Solr 4.1
Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 4.1. This is a major release both for Apache Lucene and Apache Solr.
Solr 4.1: SolrCloud – multiple shards on the same Solr node
We would like to discuss another new feature that will be a part of upcoming Solr 4.1 – the ability to place more than one shard of a given collection on a single Solr instance. As you may know this is not possible currently. So, lets look how this works by comparing Solr 4.1 to 4.0.
Apache Lucene and Solr 3.6.2
Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 3.6.2. This is a minor bugfix release concentrated mainly on bugfixes in Apache Lucene library.
Solr 4.0 Cookbook
Solr 4.1: Stored fields compression
Despite the fact that Lucene and Solr 4.0 is still very fresh we decided that its time to take a look at the changes in the approaching 4.1 version. One of those changes will be stored fields compression to decrease the size of the index size, when we use such fields. Let’s take a look and see how that works.