Solr vs Elasticsearch for Relevancy — Controlling Matching
This article summarizes parts of Relevant Search. Use discount code turnbullmu to get 38% off! Solr vs Elasticsearch! There’s been a TON of posts. But has anyone ever compared…
BM25 The Next Generation of Lucene Relevance
There’s something new cooking in how Lucene scores text. Instead of the traditional “TF*IDF,” Lucene just switched to something called BM25 in trunk. That means a new scoring formula…
Announcing Quepid For Elasticsearch
Carefully prune the bonsai tree with Quepid for Elasticsearch 🙂 Good news! We’re proud to announce our test-driven search toolbench Quepid now supports Elasticsearch. Quepid solves fundamental problems that…
Elyzer: Step-by-Step Elasticsearch Analyzer Debugging
I love stringing together custom analyzers to solve my search problems. Analyzers control how search and document text are transformed, step-by-step into individual terms for matching. This in turn…
The Simple Power of Elasticsearch Analyzers
No need for analysis paralysis! 🙂 Get Relevant Search today and use offer code turnbullmu for 38% off all formats! In Chapter 4 of Relevant Search, we talk a…
Quepid: Relationship Counseling for You and Your Search Engine
Quepid: the missing ingredient in your relationship with your Solr and Elasticsearch. Just like true love, better search need not be so complicated When I first got involved in…
Splainer: A Solr Developers Best Friend
Do you know about Splainer? It’s our handy-dandy, free and open source tool for developers working with Solr search results. In addition to Quepid, it’s become my favorite go…
“Relevant Search” Chapters 4 and 5 Now Available!
We’re pleased to announce that Chapters 4 and 5 are available for early access for Relevant Search! Please read and give us feedback. This is early access for a…
Log Every Document Added To Solr
I often want to intercept the complete Solr updates sent to Solr in a format I can use offline. Clients have complex ingestion systems. I shouldn’t need to have…
Improving on Git Flow: Code Reviews
Something amazing happened today on our Quepid project. We did a code review. Not some formal thing whereby we sat together in a conference room with someone presenting hundreds…
BioSolr — Stop Reinventing The Wheel in Life Science Search
I was privileged to be hosted in Cambridge UK by our buddies at Flax two weeks ago. During my time over in the UK, I got a chance to…
Deep Dive into Elasticsearch Cross Field Search
Crossing streams — problem. Crossing fields? No problem! Elasticsearch’s cross field queries are a great feature. They let you blend multiple fields scores together on a search-term by…