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…
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…
Solving data “variety” with Postgress NoSQL Extensions
Raise your hand if you’ve heard the three “Vs” of Big Data? Velocity – your query/updates are exceptionally fast or large. Your processing the entire twitter feed. Volume –…
The Semantic Web up and coming – impressions of SEMANTiCS 2014
When you hear someone say about a technology that it only works in theory, it is too labour-intensive and `it is not industry-ready, chances are that they are talking…
Recap of Cassandra Summit 2014
OpenSource Connections was well represented in San Francisco at this years Cassandra Summit 2014. We had Chris Bradford, Eric Pugh, and Matt Overstreet in attendance for the training, sessions,…
September Chock Full of Talks (Dougtember?)
I somehow managed to line up a speaking gig for every week in September! I hope youll join me on this insane marathon. Ill be talking about topics key…
Introducing Splainer – The Open Source Search Sandbox That Tells You Why
One piece of feedback that has consistently come with our Quepid search testing tool is the need to understand “why” search results come back the order they do. In…
Using Quepid to Improve Relevancy of Advance Auto Parts Intranet Search
Recently, Advance Auto Parts contacted OSC to improve the search relevancy of their intranet application, Starting Line. Starting Line serves as the knowledge base for every store employee, so…
Improving The Camel Solr Component
Weve been using Apache Camel a fair amount recently as our ingestion pipeline of choice. It presents a fairly nice DSL for wiring together different data sources, performing transformations,…
Reindexing Collections with Solrs Cursor Support
When a Solr schema changes, us Solr devs know whats next – a large reindex of all of our data to capture any changes to index-time analysis. When we…