Dogfights in Open Source Search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch
I’ve had some interesting conversations over the last few months around the three big hitters of open source search: Solr, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. Solr is the old dog in…
A Search Hackday at Haystack US 2023
Lucene bugs, More Like This, ChatGPT, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and MongoDB Atlas Search – just some of the things we worked on at our Search Hackday
Solr Contributor Bootcamp
Do you want to become a contributor to Solr, the open source search server from the Apache Foundation, but don’t know where to start? Here’s your chance! Eric Pugh…
And Then There Were Three – OpenSearch comes of age
OpenSearch joins Elasticsearch and Apache Solr as a serious option for powering search – but why is it different and how might the rise of vector search change the…
Apache Solr 9.0 Released
Apache Solr committer Kevin Risden updates us on Solr 9, now more lightweight and with vector search capabilities
Fundamentals of query rewriting (part 1): introduction to query expansion
Johannes Peter introduces query expansion in the first part of a series on fundamentals of query rewriting
Better term-centric scoring in Elasticsearch with BM25F and the combined_fields query
How the combined_fields query introduces better term-centric scoring in Elasticsearch with BM25F
Silos Are the Enemy of AI Powered Search
As a contributor to AI Powered Search I’m struck by how often organizational, rather than technical, challenges stymie machine learning adoption. Let’s explore one of those challenges: silos between…
The Missing Hello World for OpenNLP
I wrote this back in 2012 for version 1.5.2-incubating, and never published it. So I’m updating it for the October 2018 version of OpenNLP, 1.9.0. Visit http://opennlp.apache.org/ and you…
Enterprise Data World 2018 Recap
In April I went on a pilgrimage to Enterprise Data World to encourage my colleagues in the Data world who typically are focused on issues of Data Governance, Data…
Why We Created Search Relevance Training
I am a big proponent of Solr and Elasticsearch search engines BUT… … they are frameworks. A bag of tools. I can teach you how they fit together in…
Elasticsearch Learning to Rank 1.0.1 Released
Thanks so much to community members who let us know that Elasticsearch Learning to Rank did not work with Elastic Cloud/XPack Security. Today Elastic Learning to Rank 1.0.1 is…