Building your own e-commerce search with Elasticsearch just got easier In June 2020 the first release of Chorus was announced at Berlin Buzzwords by Eric Pugh, Johannes Peter, René…
How the combined_fields query introduces better term-centric scoring in Elasticsearch with BM25F
As expected, Amazon have announced their fork of the Elasticsearch codebase following the recent changes to the licensing of the latter by Elastic. This sounds like a herculean effort,…
We’ve recently released Querqy 5 for Solr – a good time to have a look at this new major version and at other exciting features that were implemented recently….
One of the most common questions we’re asked at OSC is ‘which search engine should I choose, Elasticsearch or Solr?’. Our web logs show consistently high traffic from Google…
As I wrote only a few days ago, Elastic, the company formed by the creators of Elasticsearch, will be releasing future versions of this software under a non open…
Learn how to migrate to Solr or Elasticsearch with a Playbook, as featured in our talk The Search Engine Migration Circus
After Elastic’s move to relicense its core code, will Elasticsearch remain open source software?
Elasticsearch Experts Elasticsearch is a search server built on Apache Lucene available under an ‘open code’ license. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable full-text search engine with an HTTP web…
How to use low level Lucene term statistics with Elasticsearch LTR plugin using TermStatQuery for feature engineering
Does your team use Elasticsearch but struggle to deliver relevant, high-quality search results? ‘Think Like a Relevance Engineer’ (TLRE) is a 2-part Elasticsearch training that gives your team the…
There have been some interesting moves by cloud computing providers over the last few weeks with respect to search and relevance, particularly concerning the Elasticsearch open source stack. As…