…like ‘solr vs elasticsearch’ – although as we wrote some years ago the answer doesn’t matter as much as people think it might. With recent changes to Elasticsearch’s license this…
…And I’m not convinced Elasticsearch/Solr are nescsarilly bad for large scale search use cases. Of course Solr and Elasticsearch are catching up! Solr and Elasticsearch have a learning to rank…
…it? How to introduce some external knowledge about items in the ranking, like per-item click-through rate? In this article, we discuss common approaches to field boost tuning for Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr and…
…this effort, we’re also making sure the Elasticsearch LTR plugin works with Elasticsearch v8 after recent breaking changes to their plugin architecture. Luckily and thanks to folks at Elastic it’s…
…of them with Elasticsearch. The tasks are fairly simple, installing JRE, downloading and installing Elasticsearch, installing Elasticsearch plugins. The last task copies over the Elasticsearch configuration file on our local…
…straight-forward match queries. The latter is a function score query that just returns a movie’s rating which has no relationship to the search keywords. from elasticsearch import Elasticsearchkeywords="rambo"titleSearch = {…
At OpenSource Connections, We Do What We Must, Because We Can In Elasticsearch, searching across multiple fields can be confusing to beginners. This is a tough first step in creating…
…disables term frequencies in scoring but uses phrase matching. Unfortunately, neither Solr or Elasticsearch have the ability to enable positions while disabling term frequencies. The options for Elasticsearch are documented…
…relevance. Using Managed Vocabularies in Elasticsearch So ok, nothing you’ve seen thus far looks like anything that has anything to do with Elasticsearch. I know, sorry for all the setup….
…to talk with the running Elasticsearch service! Unfortunately servers don’t stay up forever, hardware fails. When this happens the pod is gone and our customer’s are left without an Elasticsearch…
…is becoming increasingly popular as a query preprocessor for Solr and Elasticsearch. In 2020 it gained a lot of momentum as part of the querqy.org project and as part of…
As I almost exclusively help folks with Solr/Elasticsearch search relevance, I often encounter the “giant list of synonyms” that a client has. This list often creates odd side effects with…