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.
Solr
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.
Apache Lucene and Solr 4.0 released!
After three years of development we can finally say that Apache Lucene library and Solr server 4.0 have been released.
Apache Lucene and Solr 4.0 beta
We are getting closer and closer to the final release of Apache Lucene and Solr 4.0 as a few minutes ago 4.0 beta of Apache Lucene library and Solr search servers were released.
Backing Up Your Index
Did you ever wonder if you can create a backup of your index with the tools available in Solr ? For exmaple after every commit or optimize operation ? Or may you would like to create backups with the HTTP API call ? Lets see what possibilities Solr has to offer.
Apache Lucene and Solr 3.6.1
Today Apache Lucene and Solr PMC announced another version of Apache Lucene library and Apache Solr search server numbred 3.6.1. This is a minor bugfix release concentrated mainly on bugfixes in Apache Lucene library.