Open Source Hadoop Connectors for Solr
Lucidworks is happy to announce that several of our connectors for indexing content from Hadoop to Solr are now open source. We have six of them, with support for Spark, Hive, Pig, HBase, Storm and...
View ArticleErik Hatcher, Developer on Fire, Profiled by Dave Rael
Lucidworks engineer, Apache Lucene committer, and co-author of Lucene in Action as well as co-author of Java Development with Ant is profiled on Dave Rael’s Developer on Fire podcast. Subscribe or...
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Lucidworks Fusion 2.2 Now Available
Lucidworks Fusion 2.2 is now available for download! Lucidworks is pleased to announce the release of Fusion 2.2, our platform for building and scaling search-driven apps. This is a preview release of...
View ArticleTop Blog Posts of 2015
2015 was a banner year for our blog with fresh posts popping up constantly across a broad selection of topics from the brainiacs here at Lucidworks. Here’s our top ten most popular blog posts from the...
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Jake Mannix Joins Lucidworks as Principal Data Engineer
We are pleased to welcome Jake Mannix to the Lucidworks team as our new Principal Data Engineer. Jake’s past work includes: Working on data pipelining with Apache Spark to scale a semantic search...
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example/files – a Concrete Useful Domain-Specific Example of bin/post and...
The Series This is the third in a three part series demonstrating how it’s possible to build a real application using just a few simple commands. The three parts to this are: Getting data into Solr...
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Happy 10th Birthday Apache Solr!
January marked the tenth anniversary of Yonik Seeley’s fateful post on the Apache incubator listserv back in January of 2006: Hello Incubator PMC folks, I would like to propose a new Apache project...
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Fusion plus Solr Suggesters for More Search, Less Typing
The Solr suggester search component was previously discussed on this blog in the post Solr Suggester by Solr committer Erick Erickson. This post shows how to add a Solr suggester component to a Fusion...
View ArticleWelcome Trey Grainger!
We’re happy to announce another new addition to the Lucidworks team! Trey Grainger has joined as Lucidworks SVP of Engineering where he’ll be heading up our engineering efforts for both open source...
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Solr’s DateRangeField, How Does It Perform?
Solr’s DateRangeField I have to credit David Smiley as co-author here. First of all, he’s largely responsible for the spatial functionality and second he’s been very generous explaining some details...
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The Data That Lies Beneath: A Dark Data Deep Dive
Our latest interactive infographic takes a look at the murky origins – and potential of dark data http://lucidworks.com/darkdata The post The Data That Lies Beneath: A Dark Data Deep Dive appeared...
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Secure Fusion: SSL Configuration
This is the first in a series of articles on securing your data in Lucidworks Fusion. The first step in securing your data is to make sure that all data sent to and from Fusion is encrypted by using...
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2015 Solr Developer Survey
The results are in! We’ve got the results of the 2015 Solr Developer Survey – thank you to everyone that participated. It really helps us see a snapshot in time of the vibrant Solr community and how...
View ArticleGoogle Search Appliance’s End of Life – End of an Era
As search practitioners, we have always admired Google and all the work they’ve done to redefine and advance the search paradigm. Going beyond basic results retrieval, Google has transformed our...
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Secure Fusion Part Two: Authentication and Authorization
This is the second in a series of articles on securing your data in Lucidworks Fusion. Here’s Part One. This post covers Fusion’s basic application-level security mechanisms. At the application layer,...
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Secure Fusion: Leveraging LDAP
This is the third in a series of articles on securing your data in Lucidworks Fusion. Secure Fusion: SSL Configuration covers transport layer security and Secure Fusion: Authentication and...
View ArticleApache Solr 6 Is Released! Here’s What’s New:
Happy Friday – Apache Solr 6 just released! From the official announcement: “Solr 6.0.0 is available for immediate download at: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html “See the...
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Introducing Lucidworks View!
Lucidworks is pleased to announce the release of Lucidworks View. View is an extensible search interface designed to work with Fusion, allowing for the deployment of an enterprise-ready search front...
View ArticleBetter Feature Engineering with Spark, Solr, and Lucene Analyzers
This blog post is about new features in the Lucidworks spark-solr open source toolkit. For an introduction to the spark-solr project, see Solr as an Apache Spark SQL DataSource Performing text analysis...
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Secure Fusion: Single Sign-On
Single Sign-On (SSO) mechanisms allow a user to use the same ID and password to gain access to a connected system or systems. In a web services or distributed computing environment, single sign-on can...
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