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Täusche den Narr (Stump The Chump) @ ApacheCon EU 2012

I'm excited to announce that Stump The Chump is coming to Sinsheim, Germany for Lucene Eurocon @ ApacheCon EU. (more…)
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Apache Solr and Apache Lucene 4.0.0 Released

Today, the Apache Software Foundation officially announced the release of Apache Solr 4.0.0 and Apache Lucene 4.0.0. An annotated version...
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“Solr in Action” book – early access

Exciting news.... a new book, "Solr in Action" has arrived covering Solr 4!   The book is co-authored by two extremely...
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Lucidworks Search, Big Data earn Lucidworks company of the year win

Holy cow! A little over a week ago I received notification from Frost and Sullivan that we were selected to...
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Sizing Hardware in the Abstract: Why We Don’t Have a Definitive Answer

Or "Why can't you answer a simple question?" Client after client and user after user (on the user's list) ask...
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IBM + Vivisimo = Big Data… REALLY?

Recently IBM announced they had acquired Vivisimo to enable search in their Big Data software stack. Reading the press reviews...
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Solr 4 preview: SolrCloud, NoSQL, and more

The first alpha release of Solr 4 is quickly approaching, bringing powerful new features to enhance existing Solr powered applications, as well...
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Stump The Chump Updates

For those of you not following the Lucene Revolution Blog I've posted some updates there about Stump The Chump over...
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Once a Chump, Always a Chump

The first time I ever presented at an "International Tech Conference" was ApacheCon 2006 in Austin TX. Even though there...
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What is the big deal about BIG DATA?

There was a video that came out a few years ago called “Did you Know”? If you haven’t seen it,...
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Memory comparisons between Solr 3x and trunk

Or, "Trunk can use about 1/3 of the memory required by 3.x" Please note that these tests were created with...
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Dates, date boosting, and NOW

More NOW evil Prompted by a subtle issue a client raised, I was thinking about date boosting. According to the...
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