A Look Back at Lucene and Solr in 2011

January 6, 2012

Link corrected, January 10, 2012.

If you’re interested in open source issues, check out this quality write up: “Lucene & Solr Year 2011 in Review” at the Sematext Blog http://blog.sematext.com/ . This is a thorough account of the important 2011 moments in Lucene and Solr history. The article notes:

This year saw numerous changes and additions both in Lucene and Solr. As a matter of fact, we’d venture to say we saw more changes in Lucene & Solr this year than in any one year before. In that sense, both projects are very much like wine – getting better with time.

See the write up for the whole listing, but some highlights include: near real-time search; field collapsing; the ability to model parent-child relationship in indices; and broad language support. The piece also has kind words for Solr’s Extended Dismaz query parser and SolrCloud.

Apache has had a good year with both Lucene and Solr. Will there be even more on the list this time next year? We anticipate significant open source activity in 2012.

Cynthia Murrell, January 6, 2012

Comments

2 Responses to “A Look Back at Lucene and Solr in 2011”

Otis Gospodnetic on January 6th, 2012 12:10 am

Thanks for noticing, Cynthia.
Btw.: Semantext ==> Sematext
Stephen E. Arnold on January 10th, 2012 6:26 am

Otis Otis Otis,

My error. I am responsible for what the writers post and the typo did not stick. I will update the source article with the correct spelling. Again, my apologies.

Stephen E Arnold, January 10, 2012

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