Apache Lucene and its high level services wrapper, Solr, provide extremely powerful full-text search, among other search functionality, and are widely used across the internet. Think search has ...

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 ...

At the recent Lucene Revolution conference in San Francisco CMSWire interviewed Stephen Dunn, Head of Technology Strategy at British newspaper The Guardian. Dunn shared how The Guardian has reinvented ...

For the most recent edition of the Search and Information Access Report, I had the opportunity to help expand our coverage of Apache Lucene. The decision to increase our coverage of Lucene was a ...

Apache Lucene 9.10 has been released with support for similarity-based vector searches. Other improvements include block join compatible index sorting, and several improvements to ensure the software ...

Apache Lucene 10 has been released. The updated version adds a new IndexInput prefetch API, support for sparse indexing on doc values, and upgraded Snowball dictionaries resulting in improved ...

Instead of a data scientist, what if you only needed your GoogleBing-fu to analyze data in Hadoop? That may be a stretch, but it's exactly what Cloudera is working toward. Several years ago, many ...

Further refining an already widely used full-text search engine, the Apache Software Foundation has updated Lucene to execute searches more quickly across multiple servers, the development team ...