06 Nov
Solr 1.3 comes with Search enhancements
Grant Ingersoll has published a new article on IBM developer works that talks about new features in Solr 1.3.
- “Did you mean” Spellchecking
- Finding similar pages (More like this)
- Editorial results placement - Ability to specify that a particular document (or documents) appear at a particular place in the search results.
- Distributed Search - Solr adds distributed search capabilities that has the ability to scale the index size by spliting up the documents across several machines (shards)
- Performance Gains - ~5x improvement in indexing speed
Solr is starting to get more mature as it starts adding feature / functionality that modern information access applications need. I have spent a lot of time integrating and enhancing product offerings that used Lucene as the underlying engine to provide search. Now, it’s great to see Solr project moving forward with some thrust.
Companies that use Lucene in their applications and products should definitely start evalutaing Solr and how they can take advantage of it.
