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)…
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…
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…
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…
When click scoring can hurt search relevance – towards better signals processing in search
Have you heard of “click scoring” or “click tracking”? In the context of search click scoring is the method whereby you collect statistics on where users click in their…
Lets Stop Saying “NoSQL”
NoSQL to describe a database makes about as much sense as “NoSedan” to describe a car I say the word “NoSQL” a lot. When I say NoSQL, I tend…