Bereits letzten Donnerstag konnte man dem Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog entnehmen, dass man in Zukunft den Support von Linux und Unix einstellen wird. Neben dem Konkurrenten Autonomy dominiert FAST nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Interoperabilität zu Win Dateisystemen und Formaten sowie Sharepoint den hiesigen Markt. Das FAST-Bestandskunden diese Meldung bereits aufgegriffen haben und die offene Alternative [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Solr’
Interesting ApacheCon Europe 2009 Sessions
The registration to ApacheCon Europe 2009 (23-27 March) in Amsterdam was opened last week. I already spent some time watching the available sessions regarding Hadoop, Lucene etc., have a look…
Enterprise Search 2008 Wrap-Up
Breakfast Links 07.01.2009
* Enterprise Search 2008 Wrap-Up
Lynda Moulton (The Gilbane Group) with a short summary on Enterprise Search in the year 2008. Including business developments at the big players (Microsoft and FAST, IBM and OmniFind), search/text mining technologies and a lot of interesting company names in the field of Enterprise Search and beyond.
* New Stuff [...]
Enterprise Search Study
Breakfast Links 08.12.2008
* Arnold White Study Published
Galatea published the study “Successful Enterprise Search Management” by Stephen E. Arnold (Beyond Search) and Martin White (Interview at ArnoldIT). The study is essentially about how to manage an enterprise search environnement, beginning from the selection and integration of a vendor and how a project team is setup. There [...]
Solr 1.3 Article on DeveloperWorks
Breakfast Links 06.11.2008
* What’s new with Apache Solr
A worth reading article from Grant Ingersoll on Apache Solr 1.3 at IBM developerWorks. Beside the introduction to Solr, it covers the new features since 1.3 like the Import Handler (from Databases, Filesystem, RSS etc.), Similarity Search and the concept of Distributed Search.
* Updating and Deleting Documents in [...]
Birds Of A Feather Sessions in New Orleans
Breakfast Links 31.10.2008
* Birds Of A Feather Sessions (BOFs) in New Orleans
BoF sessions on the ApacheCon are informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic. Grant Ingersoll from Lucene proposed two sessions, one on Apache Machine Learning (Mahout, UIMA) and one on Apache Search (Lucene, Nutch, Search). I would have increased the counter, unfortunately [...]
Solr 1.3 released
Solr 1.3 final was released today, congratulations to the development team!
This release ships with a lot of new features:
Distributed search capabilities
Supporting multiple indexes in one deployment (this means also multiple languages in one deployment)
Chained search components (More Like This, Spell Checking, etc.)
The new DataImportHandler to import easily from Database to Solr