More from Sematext
September 15, 2010
After the publication of Lucene in Action, 2nd edition, I wanted to more information about Otis Gospodnetic’s company Sematext. Mr. Gospodnetic, who is a busy professional, agreed to an interview with me last week. The full text of that interview is now available as part of the ArnoldIT.com Search Wizards Speak series. You can read the full text at this link.
Mr. Gospodnetic will be a speaker at the October Lucene Revolution Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Space at the conference is limited due to the influx of early registrations. My hunch is that those who have an interest in open source search want an opportunity to hear from professionals like Mr. Gospodnetic. There are 25 or 30 other experts on the program, which makes the conference on of the few places the best minds in open source search and content processing can be tapped for their insights and knowledge.
You will want to read the full interview. However, I wanted to flag two comments offered by Mr. Gospodnetic.
First, his firm offers engineering and consulting firms to organizations. His approach struck me as interesting:
We primarily provide our knowledge and expertise in dealing with volume “problems”, be that data volume or request (search/query) volume. In addition, we have experience with tools that are designed to work well in high data (change) volume environments. For example, for our search customers we regularly design highly distributed search backend on top of Lucene or Solr or other search solutions that involve index sharding and distributed search or index replication, or both. While we focus on Lucene and Solr on the search side of our business, we are constantly looking at and evaluating new search technologies. In a recent engagement we looked beyond Lucene/Solr and, after evaluating several other solutions (although all based on Lucene!), decided to go with a solution that turned out to be more appropriate for the customer.
Many vendors focus “in”. Sematext continues to look “out” when it comes to information retrieval.
Second, he identified the three major trends in search. He told me:
Large-scale data processing (think Lucene/Solr and Hadoop family of products), distributed everything (think Solr, Nutch, Hadoop, HBase…), learning from data (think machine learning, Mahout…).
This statement makes clear that Mr. Gospodnetic sees open source in general and search in particular as having an important role to play in the months and years ahead. Some of the mid tier consulting firms have been slow to recognize the impact open source software is having. I am confident in 2011, there will be many “experts’ rushing forward to document what Mr. Gospodnetic, Lucid Imagination, and others have been doing for several years. Better late than never I think.
For more of Mr. Gospodnetic’s comments, click here.
Stephen E Arnold, September 15, 2010
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