What is Test Driven Search Relevancy?
During a challenging search project, we realized that we were simply trying to accomplish too much. The demands to create relevant search results were intense. The deadline looming. Presented…
OSC To Have Three speakers at Lucene Revolution!
If youd like to catch up with us and youre in Europe, theres few better places to hear what were all about than at one of our talks at…
OSC has 9 speaking engagements the Fall (and counting)
Just in case youre interested, Id like to add 6ish more speaking engagements to the list of speakers were taking to Dublin this November. Database History from Codd to…
Quepid – Stop shipping broken searches
Let’s face it, returning good search results means making money. To this end, we’re often hired to tune search to ensure that search results are as close as possible…
Using SolrJ with BASIC authentication and SSL wrapped Solr
Do you have BASIC authentication turned on for Solr? Are you using a self signed SSL Certificate? Do you want to index to this server using SolrJ? Ive taken…
Using SolrCloud to clone your search index
The search engine GPSN has fairly static dataset of Chinese patents that is delivered via roughly 5 TB worth of very large ZIP files. The data for each patent…
Solr Index Speed on EBS
If youve got your Solr index on an Amazon EBS volume, save yourself some headache and do this every time you make a new volume: sudo nohup dd if=/dev/xvdi…
Migrating American Medical Association’s search to Solr
Our client, Silverchair Information Systems, recently completed a successful migration of the American Medical Association’s search over to Solr. Leveraging Silverchair’s semantic platform, weve helped migrate Silverchairs SCM platform…
Building the Perfect Cassandra Test Environment
A month back, one of our clients asked us to set up 15 individual single-node Cassandra instances, each of which would live in 64MB of RAM and each of…
Why we chose to invest in client-side search applications
On a recent enterprise search project we were tasked with taking over six million documents and making them searchable by the general public, all within a very short development…
SolrCloud as a Windows Service
Want to setup a simple solrCloud network on Windows? If you are just running a couple nodes and intend to run the embedded ZooKeeper heres how to get it…
Semantic Search with Solr and Python Numpy
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? –…