2011
elasticsearch - blog - Percolator
by Xavier Lacot
ElasticSearch's new "Percolator" feature, which enabled to index queries and find which documents match them : instead of sending docs, indexing them, and then running queries, one sends queries, registers them, and then sends docs and finds out which queries match that doc.
2010
Scaling Lucene and Solr | Enterprise Search support for Apache Lucene and Solr by Lucid Imagination
by Xavier Lacot
An interesting article from Lucid Imagination employee Mark Miller about Scaling Solr. It gives a lot of good practices and tips on how to get the best out of one indexing machine, and explains how to use Solr built-in replication system.
2009
SIREn: Semantic Information Retrieval Engine
by parmentierf
SIREn - Semantic Information Retrieval Engine - a Lucene plugin to overcome these shortcomings and efficiently index and query RDF, as well as any textual document with an arbitrary amount of metadata fields.
Welcome to Solr - Apache
by Jeremy B. & 2 others
Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs
2008
2007
ONJava.com -- Using the Lucene Query Parser Without Lucene
by parmentierf (via)
Stop creating sophisticated search forms. You can use technologies like Ajax to give you the power of creating user friendly interfaces; use ideas like "suggest" or "type ahead"; and create a simpler interface so your users won't feel lost in a huge set of search options. Remember, all users want is to quickly find the information they are looking for. You may stop creating sophisticated and hard-to-maintain search forms, instead providing searches based on Lucene query syntax. You could satisfy your users with a simple search field, as Google does
grassyknoll - Google Code
by greut
Grassy Knoll is a storage and search web service written in Python. It is intended for use by read-heavy applications, such as web apps.
2006
Welcome to Hadoop!
by psylle & 1 other
Hadoop is a framework for running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a computational paradigm named map/reduce, where the appli
Welcome to Nutch!
by psylle & 4 others
Nutch is open source web-search software. It builds on Lucene Java, adding web-specifics, such as a crawler, a link-graph database, parsers for HTML and other document formats, etc.
Solr : open source enterprise search server based on Lucene
by clochix & 5 others
Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, faceted search, caching, replication, and a web administration interface. It runs in a Java servlet container such as Tomcat.
