2011
elasticsearch - blog - Percolator
by Xavier Lacot
ElasticSearch's new "Percolator" feature, which enabled to index queries and find which documents match them : instead of sending docs, indexing them, and then running queries, one sends queries, registers them, and then sends docs and finds out which queries match that doc.
Stack Overflow Search — Now 81% Less Crappy - Blog – Stack Overflow
by night.kame
Although our de-crapifying efforts have been noble and heroic (well, in my mind, anyway), we’ve clearly begun to exceed the scope and scale of what SQL Server search can do for us.
That’s why I’m pleased to announce that as of today, we have switched all of our search functionality network wide from SQL Server to Lucene, or more specifically, the Lucene.NET flavor.
2010
Scaling Lucene and Solr | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination
by Xavier Lacot
An interesting article from Lucid Imagination employee Mark Miller about Scaling Solr. It gives a lot of good practices and tips on how to get the best out of one indexing machine, and explains how to use Solr built-in replication system.
Lucid Imagination » Apache Lucene Connector Framework now in Incubation at the ASF
by holyver (via)
The Apache Lucene Connector Framework project has officially entered incubation. LCF, for short, is going to be a framework for connecting to content repositories like Sharepoint, Documentum, etc. and will make it easy to hook into Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Mahout, Tika, while, of course, remaining agnostic of the final destination of the data. See the Connectors website and the original proposal for more info. Help wanted!
2009
Apache Solr Service | drupal.org
by claire_
Return search results from apache solr module through services.
SIREn: Semantic Information Retrieval Engine
by parmentierf
SIREn - Semantic Information Retrieval Engine - a Lucene plugin to overcome these shortcomings and efficiently index and query RDF, as well as any textual document with an arbitrary amount of metadata fields.
SRW/U [OCLC - Software]
by parmentierf
The SRW/U Open Source project offers software that implements both the SRW Web Service and the SRU REST model interface to databases. Included are interfaces that support DSpace's Lucene implementation and OCLC's Pears and Newton databases.
Welcome to Solr - Apache
by Jeremy B. & 2 others
Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs
2008
