Name Search in Solr
Remember the good ole days of “Alpha by Author”? Searching names is a pretty common requirement for many applications. Searching by book authors, for example, is a pretty crucial…
Two Solr Training Courses Coming to Charlottesville in October
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…
Understanding How CQL3 Maps to Cassandra’s Internal Data Structure: Sets, Lists, and Maps
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…
Getting Dissed by Dismax – Why your incorrect assumptions about dismax/edismax are hurting search relevancy
In the competition between field scores, theres little fairness. When you learn about the dismax query parser for the first time, one of the first things you learn about…
Coming Soon to State Decoded
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…
Getting Started with Cassandra: Overview
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be posting a 4-part series introduction to Cassandra. This series will take you through all of the basic components of setting up…
Lockdown Solr with IIS as a Reverse Proxy
We’ve been developing rich client-side applications that talk directly to Solr’s HTTP interface from Javascript – requiring a publicly accessible Solr. One concern that you’ll naturally have with Solr…
Advanced Suggest-As-You-Type with Solr
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…
Search-As-You-Type with Solr
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…
Searching with hierarchical fields using Solr
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…
Deploying Elasticsearch to Amazon EC2 with Ansible
Over the past few weeks Ive been working with Elasticsearch. However, what I really have been missing is a good deployment system. Elasticsearch has a chef provisioning tutorial on…
What happened to CharStream/CharReader in Lucene?
A pretty subtle change happened in the transition from Lucene/Solr 3 to 4. The abstract method for CharFilterFactory changed from public CharStream create(CharStream input); to public abstract Reader create(Reader…