As Hadoop gains, does Lucene benefit?
The last few weeks have seen a rush of investment in companies that offer Hadoop-powered Big Data platforms – the most recent being Intel’s investment in Cloudera, but Hortonworks has also snorted up...
View ArticleAutumn events roundup – ESS DC, Solr vs Elasticsearch & a new Meetup
It’s looking like a busy Autumn for search events – first, I’m presenting at Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 in Washington DC on November 5th, talking about ‘Turning Search Upside Down with open...
View ArticleMore than an API – the real third wave of search technology
I recently read a blog post by Karl Hampson of Realise Okana (who offer HP Autonomy and SRCH2 as closed source search options) on his view of the ‘third wave’ of search. The second wave he identifies...
View ArticleA new Meetup for Lucene & Solr
Last Friday we held the first Meetup for a new Apache Lucene/Solr User Group we’ve recently created (there’s a very popular one for Elasticsearch so it seemed only fair Solr had its own). My...
View ArticleComparing Solr and Elasticsearch – here’s the code we used
A couple of weeks ago we presented the initial results of a performance study between Apache Solr and Elasticsearch, carried out by my colleague Tom Mortimer. Over the last few years we’ve tested both...
View ArticleWhen even the commercial vendors are using it, has open source search won?
There have been some interesting announcements recently which may point to an increasing realisation amongst commercial search firms that an open source model is an essential advantage in today’s...
View ArticleHaystack, the search relevance conference – day 1
Last week I attended the Haystack relevance conference – I’ve already written about my overall impressions but the following are some more notes on the conference sessions. Note that some of the...
View ArticleLifting the hood of AI – to find a search engine?
A few years ago much marketing noise was made about Big Data. Every software vendor suddenly had a Big Data suite; you could suddenly buy Big Data capable hardware; consultants and experts would...
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Activate 2018 day 1 – AI and Search in Montreal
Activate is the successor to the Lucene/Solr Revolution conference that our partner Lucidworks runs every Autumn and was held this year in Montreal, Canada. After running a successful Lucene Hackday on...
View ArticleActivate 2018 day 2 – AI and Search in Montreal
I’ve already written about Day 1 of Lucidworks’ Activate conference; the second day started with a keynote on ‘moral code’, ethics & AI which unfortunately I missed, but a colleague reported that...
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