Apache Lucene Blog

Just a friendly reminder, I am giving my Lucene Boot Camp training at ApacheCon Atlanta this year (November.)  Still plenty of time to sign up.  Details on the class are here.  Also, feel free to email me with any questions or things you would like to see.  My apache.org email is gsingers.  I will be [...]

Welcome to the Triangle Java Users Group
I will be speaking November 19, 2007 at the Triangle Java Users Group on Lucene and Solr.   The talk will be an introduction to the features and capabilities of both Lucene and Solr, as well as some basic compare and contrast information.

Looks like they have put up the ApacheCon Atlanta schedule. As usual, there looks to be several very good talks covering Lucene and Solr, including talks by Chris Hostetter, Ken Krugler, Michael Busch and yours truly. My talk is at 3pm on November 16, details are here.
I will also be leading my “Lucene [...]

Nice discussion on tuning the new RAM based indexing in Lucene available here.  And I thought Lucene was already fast…  Beware, though, this fix isn’t officially released, so you will need to use the trunk version.

ONJava.com — Using the Lucene Query Parser Without Lucene
Interesting use of the Lucene QueryParser.

Lucene 2.2.0 is available.  Lots of goodness, especially performance and documentation wise, make sure you read the CHANGES.txt

I just posted this to java-user@lucene.a.o and thought I would share here as well:
Calling all Lucene Users!
You know you love Lucene for a whole variety of reasons (fast, friendly, fun, did I say fast?) so how about showing a little love back? 
We (as in the committers and contributors) are trying out a new [...]

Part 2 of my 2 part series on Apache Solr is now up on IBM developerWorks. You can read it here. This article covers some of the things that makes Solr great for the enterprise, like caching, replication and easy administration.

The first of my two part series on Solr appeared yesterday on IBM’s developerWorks, titled “Search Smarter with Apache Solr, Part 1: Essential Features and the Solr Schema“. The first article covers getting started with Solr and contains a simple application demonstrating some of the features of Solr, like XML based indexing and [...]

The latest version of my slides for “Advanced Lucene” are located at http://www.cnlp.org/presentations/present.asp?show=conference
Talk covered term vectors, using various query types and Lucene performance tips and tricks.