4 August Ultrasaurus on Lucene/Solr
August 4, 2010
I quite like the image “ultrasaurus” evokes. A goose, in comparison, lacks oomph. Nevertheless, you will want to navigate to “Lucene/Solr Meet Up, July 28, 2010.” There are some interesting factoids in the thorough summary of the presentations and remarks.
Let me highlight four that struck me as interesting, and you can work your way through the original post to get the rest of this meetup’s flavor.
First, Salesforce.com seems to sporting a Lucene/Solr T shirt under the firm’s business casual garb. Bill Press, according to Ultrasaurus, offered some metrics about the scale of the firm’s operation; for example, eight terabytes of searchable information. The incremental indexing zips along with 70 percent of new content and deltas crunched in less than one minute.
Second, Lucid Imagination’s Grant Ingersoll provided some case examples. One sequence jumped out at me; that is: his suggested links for more information:
Lucid Imagination is the go-to outfit for Lucene/Solr engineering and professional services.
Finally, Jon Gifford from Loggly said:
Solr is awesome at what it does, but not so good for data mining. [So] plan to plug in Hadoop for large-volume analytics.
Possible logo for open source search solutions? Image source: http://wargames.spyz.org/convSALAMANDER.html
Will Lucene/Solr abandon their present logotypes and go for something along the line of a Spinosaurus. With Lucene/Solr adoptions moving upwards, a Spinosaurus might have easy pickings from clients of somewhat marginalized commercial search systems in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and other European Commission member states. Snack time may be approaching. SharePoint nibbles, anyone?
Stephen E Arnold, August 4, 2010
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