Solr 4.10 and Heliosearch .07 have added a terms query (or terms filter) to more efficiently match many terms in a single field. A large number of terms are often useful for things like access control lists or security filters. … Continued
Native code faceting for Solr has just been added to Heliosearch, and benchmarks show an impressive 2x performance increase! This is faceting code written in C++ and statically compiled for maximum performance, and loaded into the JVM via JNI (Java … Continued
Off-Heap Native Filters is the first feature we added to Heliosearch, a new open source project designed to bring Solr performance to the next level. Big JVM heaps can be Big Trouble JVMs have never been good at dealing with … Continued
Heliosearch – The Next Solr Project Heliosearch is about creating the next major evolution of Solr. To kick things off, I’ve started a project on github and implemented “off-heap” filters, as a first step toward taking performance to the next … Continued
