Built upon Lucene, Solr provides fast, highly scalable, and easily maintainable full-text search capabilities. However, under the hood, Solr is really just a sophisticated token-matching engine. Whats missing? –…
Coming this October, OpenSource Connections, in partnership with LucidWorks, is pleased to present two separate Solr training courses. Read on for all the details! Solr Unleashed- October 21-22 Solr…
For the past several months OpenSource Connections headquarters has served as an underground, no-cost coworking hot spot, and weve had such a good time with it that weve decided…
Note: The following post is fantastic… but this one is about the same topic and is even better. \n\n Of late weve been playing around with EmberJS for putting…
CQL3 appears to be the newly ordained, canonical, and best-practices means of interacting with Cassandra. Indeed, the Apache Cassandra documentation itself declares that the Thrift API as “legacy” and…
Refer to my previous post for more in depth details into what Im doing here. This is just a quick reference regarding how Cassandra sets, lists, and maps work…
So Jonathan, one of our interns this summer, asked an interesting question today about MapReduce. He said, “Lets say you download the entire data set of whos following who…
Over the past few years as Ive worked with search, and Solr in particular, I have witnessed a commonly recurring problem associated with multiple objective search and how documents…
Updated 8/19/2017 to fix web links State codes are wretched. Seriously, look at a few: California’s, New York’s, Illinois’, and Texas’ are all good examples of how stunningly difficult…
In my previous post, I talked about implementing Search-As-You-Type using Solr. In this post Ill cover a closely related functionality called Suggest-As-You-Type. Heres the use case: A user comes…
In my previous post, I talked about implementing Suggest-As-You-Type using Solr. In this post I’ll cover a closely related functionality called Suggest-As-You-Type. Several years back, Google introduced an interesting…
In our recent and continuing effort to make the world a better place, we have been working with the illustrious Waldo Jaquith on a project called StateDecoded. Basically, were…
