The latest milestone in open source development at Bloomberg is the incorporation of the Learning-to-Rank (LTR) plug-in into Apache Solr 6.4.0, which shipped this week. The release of the plug-in ...

The Apache Software Foundation’s widely used open source Lucene/Solr search engine package has been upgraded to accommodate its users’ seemingly insatiable need to collect and use ever-larger amounts ...

Apache Solr is an open source search engine at heart, but it is much more than that. It is a NoSQL database with transactional support. It is a document database that offers SQL support and executes ...

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Today the Apache Foundation released a major update to the open source search engine building tools Lucene and Solr. Version 4.0 adds several new features aimed at making Solr easier to use, more ...

About the author: Steven Bower has worked for 15 years in the web/enterprise search industry – First as part of the R&D and Services teams at FAST Search and Transfer, Inc. and then as a principal ...

A database that easily spans multiple data centers and/or the cloud ensures the fastest possible response times (both read and write) for customers and employees who are geographically separated. A ...

Proof of concept exploit code was published online this month for two Apache Solr vulnerabilities, signaling that attacks are probably on their way as hackers will find ways to weaponize the two ...