Jan had a talk at JavaZone in Oslo this september, about scaling search with the new Solr 4.0 with SolrCloud. Here are the slides and the video recording: Scaling search with Apache Solr 4.0 and SolrCloud from JavaZone on Vimeo. Scaling search with Solr Cloud from Cominvent AS
We held a talk at the Open Source Conference GoOpen 2011 in Oslo today, together with our customer NHST, represented by Hans Jørgen Hoel. The talk was about the process of migrating from FAST ESP to Apache Solr for all of NHST’s news publications and other data sources.
The presentation is in Norwegian.
Vi fortsetter å gi deg sammendrag av hva som skjer på Solr fronten. Takk til Sematext for nok et bra referat. Funksjonalitet som er committet (lagt inn i kildekoden) Et vanlig problem noen hadde med highlighteren var ar q.alt ikke fungerte. Dette er nå rettet med Highlighter doesn’t support q.alt og er allerede committet til branch_3x
The Solr distros are coming
Open Source Search is gaining more and more traction. First you had Lucene (2001), giving great search for programmers. Then we got Solr (2006) making search accessible for non programmers, but a certain level of expertise is still needed. And then came Constellio, an open source (GPL) enterprise search distribution (distro) built on Solr, adding a slick GUI, connector and crawling support and more.
Say again. A Solr distro?
I call it “distro” because I like to compare the evolution to what we have seen in GNU/Linux. First there was the Linux core. Then there was the GNU tools that made Linux so much more usable but still only for engineers comfortable with the command line. And last, companies like RedHat and Suse built complete distros including modern GUI, ready-to use tools such as OpenOffice, Thunderbird and more. Without these distros, Linux would just have been a “core” leaving to the user to add the extra sugar.
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