It’s relatively easy to add advanced, scalable search capabilities to almost any application these days. All you have to do is sprinkle in a few calls to a popular open source search service in your code. That is what I did to the rudimentary news feed micro-service that I have implemented many times. In this…
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Embedding Lucene in Your Service
by glenn •
It is fairly easy to embed Lucene into your application at the service layer. This approach can add high performance keyword based search capability to your application.
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3 Ways to Customize Solr 4
by glenn •
Lucene/Solr is a full featured search engine and it is rare to need to extend its search capabilities. If you do find yourself needing something not available in vanilla Solr, then functions, request handlers, and search components are three basic ways to extend Solr with your own custom Java code to handle special search requirements.
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Using Solr/Lucene to Surface the Big Data of Social Media
by glenn •
Although you need Big Data to effectively implement a large scale social media solution, Hadoop is not always the right tool. This implementation description details how to use Solr/Lucene as a NoSql solution to meet the near real-time Big Data needs of a social blog feed.