Grant Ingersoll, CTO of LucidWorks, presented on new features and capabilities in Lucene 4 and Solr 4. Key highlights include major performance improvements in Lucene through optimizations like DocValues and native Near Real Time support. Solr 4 features faster indexing and querying, improved geospatial support, and enhancements to SolrCloud including transaction logging for reliability. LucidWorks is continuing to advance Lucene and Solr to provide more flexible, scalable, and robust open source search capabilities.
Search Abuse Can discuss how I started just doing free text, but then a curious thing happened, started to see people using the engine for things like: key/value, denormalized DBs, browsing engines, plagiarism detection, teaching languages, record linkage and much, much more
Search has added more DB features over the yearsTED: We need to introduce the idea of *REVOLUTION* somewhere in here.
Okapi BM25 & DFR divergence from randomness
Power users are often more likely to recoverTools for recovery:Auto-suggest, related searches, spelling suggestions
CharacteristicsConflicts from other clients
Power users are often more likely to recoverTools for recovery:Auto-suggest, related searches, spelling suggestions