Several weeks ago Heliosearch v.08 was released, which included an early release of the Streaming Aggregation API. One of the main design goals for the Streaming API was to provide the foundation for the Heliosearch SQL Sub-Project. The Streaming API … Continued
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
The filter caching features in Solr allow for precise control over how filter queries are handled in order to maximize performance. Solr has the ability to specify if a filter is cached, specify the order filters are evaluated, and specify … Continued
In the last couple of posts, I introduced the RankQuery API and the AnalyticsQuery API. The RankQuery API allows developers to plug-in custom ranking algorithms to Solr and the AnalyticsQuery API allows developers to plug-in custom analytic logic to Solr. … Continued
Solr 4.8 has been released. Here’s an overview of how to use some of the new features. Complex Phrase Queries The complexphrase query parser can produce phrase queries with embedded wildcards and boolean queries. It works via multiple passes, parsing … Continued
nCache Heliosearch has a new replacement for the Lucene FieldCache currently used by Solr for sorting, faceting, and function queries. Introducing nCache (n is for “native”): nCache has Off-Heap Data-structures, just like the Off-Heap Filters to lower garbage collection … 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
Solr has had full featured Field Collapsing and Grouping since 2010. The CollapsingQParserPlugin, which was recently committed, provides an alternative approach with more specific design goals. Design Goals The initial CollapsingQParserPlugin requirements were driven by a Solr ECommerce user. The … Continued
Sometimes a small programming change can have a big impact on functionality. This is the case with SOLR-5541, which allows the QueryElevationComponent to accept elevate and exclude Id’s as http parameters. Now you have complete control over the most important … Continued
