CQL3 appears to be the newly ordained, canonical, and best-practices means of interacting with Cassandra. Indeed, the Apache Cassandra documentation itself declares that the Thrift API as “legacy” and…
Please find my piece of hay! To be successful, (e)dismax relies on avoiding a tricky problem with it’s scoring strategy. As we’ve discussed, dismax scores documents by taking…
Tim Berners-Lee original vision was for the web is what we today call the Semantic Web: I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable ofanalyzing…
Over the past few years as Ive worked with search, and Solr in particular, I have witnessed a commonly recurring problem associated with multiple objective search and how documents…
So Jonathan, one of our interns this summer, asked an interesting question today about MapReduce. He said, “Lets say you download the entire data set of whos following who…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The middle of May saw me road tripping to not just one, but two Enterprise Search Summits to tell some war stories in doing search at scale. I attended…
