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Infographic: The Woes of the CIOs
It’s tough out there for CIOs. They’re getting it from all sides and from all directions. Let’s take a look at the unique challenges CIOs face in trying to keep their organizations competitive and...
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Alert! Alert! Alert! (Implementing Alerts in Lucidworks Fusion)
We live in a streaming world. Tweets, updates, documents, logs, etc. are flowing in all around us all the time, begging us to take action on everything that passes by. At the same time, our attention...
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Integrating Storm and Solr
In this post I introduce a new open source project provided by Lucidworks for integrating Solr and Storm. Specifically, I cover features such as micro-buffering, data mapping, and how to send custom...
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Efficient Field Value Cardinality Stats in Solr 5.2: HyperLogLog
pre.hoss { font-size: 12px; white-space: pre; } Following in the footsteps of the percentile support added to Solr’s StatsComponent in 5.1, Solr 5.2 will add efficient set cardinality using the...
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Data Analytics using Fusion and Logstash
Lucidworks Fusion 1.4 now ships with plugins for Logstash. In my previous post on Log Analytics with Fusion, I showed how Fusion Dashboards provide interactive visualization over time-series data,...
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Lucidworks Fusion Now Available in AWS Marketplace
While it’s been easy to download and install Fusion on your own machine, we’ve worked with Amazon Web Services to offer it pre-installed on Amazon Machine Images, so it’s even easier to trial or get...
View ArticleQuery Autofiltering Extended – On Language and Logic in Search
Spock: The logical thing for you to have done was to have left me behind. McCoy: Mr. Spock, remind me to tell you that I’m sick and tired of your logic. This is the third in a series of blog posts on a...
View ArticleWhat’s new in Apache Solr 5.2
Apache Lucene and Solr 5.2.0 were just released with tons of new features, optimizations, and bug fixes. Here are the major highlights from the release: Rule based replica assignment This feature...
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Indexing Performance in Solr 5.2 (now twice as fast)
About this time last year (June 2014), I introduced the Solr Scale Toolkit and published some indexing performance metrics for Solr 4.8.1. Solr 5.2.0 was just released and includes some exciting...
View ArticleTop 5 Open Source Natural Language Processing Libraries
Lucidworks CTO Grant Ingersoll’s latest column on Opensource.com gives you a rundown on five of the most popular and powerful open source projects for taming text and processing natural language in...
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Fusion 2.0 Now Available – Now With Apache Spark!
I’m really excited today to announce that we’ve released Lucidworks Fusion 2.0! Of course, this a new major release, and as such there is some big changes from previous versions: New User Experience...
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Search Basics for Data Engineers
Lucidworks Fusion is a platform for data engineering, built on Solr/Lucene, the Apache open source search engine, which is fast, scalable, proven, and reliable. Fusion uses the Solr/Lucene engine to...
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Preliminary Data Analysis with Fusion 2: Look, Leap, Repeat
Lucidworks Fusion is the platform for search and data engineering. In article Search Basics for Data Engineers, I introduced the core features of Lucidworks Fusion 2 and used it to index some blog...
View ArticleSolr 5’s new ‘bin/post’ utility
Series Introduction This is the first in a three part series demonstrating the ease and succinctness possible with Solr out of the box. The three parts to this are: Getting data into Solr using...
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Basics of Storing Signals in Solr with Fusion for Data Engineers
In April we featured a guest post Mixed Signals: Using Lucidworks Fusion’s Signals API, which is a great introduction to the Fusion Signals API. In this post I work through a real-world e-commerce...
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Securing Solr with Basic Authentication
Until version 5.2, Solr did not include any specific security features. If you wanted to secure your Solr installation, you needed to use external tools and solutions which were proprietary and maybe...
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Solr Developer Survey 2015
Every day, we hear from organizations looking to hire Solr talent. Recruiters want to know how to find and hire the right developers and engineers, and how to compensate them accordingly. Lucidworks is...
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If They Can’t Find It, They Can’t Buy It
Sarath Jarugula, VP Partners & Alliances at Lucidworks has a blog post up on IBM’s blog, If They Can’t Find It, They Can’t Buy It: How to Combine Traditional Knowledge with Modern Technical...
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Introducing Anda: a New Crawler Framework in Lucidworks Fusion
Introduction Developing a Crawler Writing a Fetcher Incremental Crawling Emitting Content Configuration Error Handling What’s next? Additional Reading Introduction Lucidworks Fusion 2.0 ships with...
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Solr as an Apache Spark SQL DataSource
Join us for our upcoming webinar, Solr & Spark for Real-Time Big Data Analytics. You’ll learn more about how to use Solr as an Apache Spark SQL DataSource and how to combine data from Solr with...
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