Do you really need a “NoSQL” Database?
Visit me at Strata! (logo (C) OReilly Media) I’m fortunate enough to have been selected to speak at Strata 2015 in a few weeks on one of my favorite…
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When it comes time to share data, as a developer, my mind shifts to fun topics like building API’s, providing data in multiple formats, putting data into public S3…
Ad-hoc Solr Monitoring
What is the solution when you’re doing a 24 hour load test, you haven’t already set up monitoring and you need to easily see the Physical Memory and JVM…
Using Solr’s new Healthcheck command
SolrCloud is great, up until you start seeing lots of ZooKeeper exceptions and you think to yourself, “wtf?”. Thats when you discover that you should have been monitoring your…
Using SolrJ CloudSolrServer and retrieving JSON
On a project I’m working on we want to return the Solr JSON formatted results to our rich front end application based on the Spyglass framework. However, in order…
Quepid: Write Tests Against Your Search Results
Quepid: Relevancy Solved Update ( March 20,2021 )! This function, while very valuable, wasn’t easily used by most Relevance Engineers, and so we’ve made the painful decision to remove…
Title Search: when relevancy is only skin deep
How do users judge that articles, books, and blog posts are relevant to what they’re searching for? What about you? If you’re searching for an article on ‘Socrates’, what…
Apache Sentry. So close, and yet nothing.
Security, its always been the bug a boo of Solr. There is a wide sense that security isnt a concern of the Solr community, and that isnt quite accurate….
Stepwise Date Boosting in Solr
When you want to boost on recency of content (ie more recently published documents before older ones), the Solr function query documentation gives you a basic date boost: boost=recip(ms(NOW,mydatefield),3.16e-11,1,1)…
Two Search Conferences in Two Weeks Was Too Informative
This year I experienced the conference equivalent of a lunar eclipse: two search conferences in two weeks located two hours away from my home town of Charlottesville, Virginia! Enterprise…
Playing with Thoth
At LuceneRevolution last week, one of the sessions that got me really excited was about Thoth, presented by Damiano Braga and Praneet Mhatre. It was very nicely done, especially…
Datastax Engagement Award
OpenSource Connections AwardedDataStax Engagement Award CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, October 15, 2014 – OpenSource Connections (OSC), a search, discovery and analytics consultancy, today announced it is the proud recipient of the…