Having performance issues with Solr’s faceted search and certain types of fields? Help has arrived in the form of a new Solr faceting algorithm! This new faceting implementation dramatically improves the performance of faceted search, making it suitable for a … Continued
I was surprised to discovered that there isn’t a good cross-platform hash function defined for strings. MD5, SHA, FVN, etc, all define hash functions over bytes, meaning that it’s under-specified for strings. So I set out to create a standard … Continued
A new chapter in Solr scalability has been opened with the addition of distributed search! http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch Distributed Search splits an index into multiple shards, and queries across all the shards, combining the results and presenting a single merged response that … Continued
I’ll be giving a Solr presentation Nov 8th in Berlin, titled “Add Powerful Full Text Search to Your Web App with Solr“. Should be fun, just wish I had more free time while in Berlin…
