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lucidworks.com is the company blog at lucidworks.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2013, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “SolrCloud, Jepsen, and Flaky Networks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lucidworks' company blog and customer pages as sources on Solr and Lucene search, including Solr versus Elasticsearch, SolrCloud Jepsen testing, and synonym handling.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- SolrCloud, Jepsen, and Flaky Networks3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-11
- /customers/reddit/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-26
- Nfographic: 15 Years of the Apache Software Foundation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-02-26
What Hacker News says?
> I don’t think they ever seriously invested in that, for whatever reason. They have recently invested in it, switching to lucidworks[1] a few years ago. Sadly i don't think it changed anyones opinion of reddit search, but it might have saved them some infrastructure cost. [1] https://lucidworks.com/customers/reddit/
Comment linking /customers/reddit/
on “Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche”Submitted SolrCloud, Jepsen, and Flaky Networks as a story · 48 points
HN discussionLucidWorks ( http://www.lucidworks.com ) - main office in Redwood Shores, CA with remote workers all over the place. "LucidWorks is the commercial company behind Apache/Lucene Solr, the world’s leading open source search platform.LucidWorks is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.These cutting edge technologies power critical search apps at thousands of websites and enterprise apps large and small – including Netfl…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)”Submitted Hadoop Connectors for Apache Solr as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSolr has an ELK equivalent, called SILK. Actually uses most of the same components (Banana=Kibana for Solr, etc): http://www.lucidworks.com/lucidworks-silk/
Comment linking /lucidworks-silk/
on “Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million”Submitted Context Filtering with Solr Suggesters as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAt one point, their search used LucidWorks Fusion [1], a commercial product based around Solr (that uses Lucene indexes under the hood) but also integrates a vector database and the like for semantic search. The linked wiki page still has Lucene-style queries. [1]: https://lucidworks.com/customers/reddit/
Comment linking /customers/reddit/
on “New on Reddit: Comment search, improved search results relevance, search design”Submitted Why Gibson Guitars Failed at Innovation – As Fender Thrived as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have used and spent time with both products and I couldn't disagree with this more. In my opinion, Elasticsearch is the more mature product and has been around longer than Solr Cloud (ES 2/2010, Solr Cloud 10/2012)[0][1], if you count Compass developement (ES' precursor) than even longer. Where ES was built from the ground up with clustering in mind, this is a feature that is certainly a primary focus for Solr Clo…
Comment linking /about-us/
on “Elasticsearch – the definitive guide”Submitted Implementing Alerts in Lucidworks Fusion as a story · 4 points
HN discussionApache Solr is best suited for such applications. AOL Mail uses Solr to power search for all users [0]. [0] - http://lucidworks.com/blog/podcast-solr-at-scale-at-aol/
Comment linking /blog/podcast-solr-at-scale-at-aol/
on “FastMail's Email Search Architecture”Submitted Integrating Storm and Solr as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWell yes a ton :) And these are the ones off the top of my head... others feel free to list ones I'm missing Books: Lucene in Action http://manning.com/books/lucene-in-action Solr in Action https://www.manning.com/books/solr-in-action Relevant Search http://manning.com/books/relevant-search (disclaimer, my book) Elasticsearch Definitive Guide (free/online) https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/…
Comment linking /blog/
on “Google may rank sites for queries that don't appear on the page at all”Submitted Indexing Arabic Content with Apache Solr as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn 2015, they evaluated Apache Solr and Elasticsearch and decided to build their own (Firefly). They said, other solutions did not scale. So, instead of contributing to scaling (like Apple and Bloomberg and Cloudera did), they went the other way. Now, they seem to be doing it again (at least they are using Tika). In a meanwhile, Solr implemented most of the features they are describing in their architecture document…
Comment linking /2015/08/28/shutterstock-searches-35-million-images-color-using-apache-solr/
on “Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine”Submitted Call Me Maybe: SolrCloud, Jepsen, and Flaky Networks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, ES uses multiple threads nicely. But as you move to 32 or 64 cores - in my experience - a single threaded client won't keep ES/Lucene busy enough. With SOLR, it's similar: > Sometimes you need to index a bunch of documents really, really fast. [...] The solution is two-fold: batching and multi-threading From: http://lucidworks.com/blog/high-throughput-indexing-in-solr/
Comment linking /blog/high-throughput-indexing-in-solr/
on “How Akka Streams can be used to process the Wikidata dump in parallel”Submitted Introducing Anda: A New Crawler Framework in Lucidworks Fusion as a story · 2 points
HN discussionkrat0sprakhar: Check out my blogs on this https://lucidworks.com/blog/solution-for-multi-term-synonyms... I also did a Meetup on this just this week http://www.slideshare.net/detnavillus/the-well-tempered-sear... Check out slide 18 - autophrasing + synonyms: Precision 100% recall 100% Bag of words OOTB Solr/Lucene NOT so! The code is on github and is a Lucene TokenFilter so it should work. I used 4.10.3 for the Meet…
Comment linking /blog/solution-for-multi-term-synonyms-in-lucenesolr-using-the-auto-phrasing-tokenfilter/
on “Major Changes from Solr 4 to Solr 5”Submitted Debugging Search Application Relevance Issues (2009) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you need a solid easy-to-config security wrapped around Solr I would recommend taking a peek @ Fusion from Lucidworks, http://lucidworks.com/product/solr-enterprise/
Comment linking /product/solr-enterprise/
on “Major Changes from Solr 4 to Solr 5”Submitted Lucidworks Fusion 4.1 as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> partition tolerance Yes, see [1] and [2] for a comparison between Solr and Elasticsearch. I should mention also that ES are working on the partition tolerance issue as described in [3]. I am currently using 1.4.3 and am wondering if anything was addressed in 1.4 for resiliency. [1] http://lucidworks.com/blog/call-maybe-solrcloud-jepsen-flaky... [2] https://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch [3] http:/…
Comment linking /blog/call-maybe-solrcloud-jepsen-flaky-networks/
on “Major Changes from Solr 4 to Solr 5”Submitted Lucidworks Fusion 3 Is Ready for Download as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPostgres would give us actual Boolean logic whenever we used Boolean operators: https://lucidworks.com/post/why-not-and-or-and-not/
Comment linking /post/why-not-and-or-and-not/
on “A brief history of Elasticsearch (2014)”Submitted Search Hub 2.0 Public Beta as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAnd @aphyr's twitter response: So I'm delighted by http://lucidworks.com/blog/call-maybe-solrcloud-jepsen-flaky... … but tbh "may get a successful response for a document that is lost" is actually a CP failure. -- https://twitter.com/aphyr/status/542820272626491392
Comment linking /blog/call-maybe-solrcloud-jepsen-flaky-networks/
on “SolrCloud, Jepsen, and Flaky Networks”Submitted What's new in Apache Solr 5.2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nfographic: 15 Years of the Apache Software Foundation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Infographic: 15 Years of the Apache Software Foundation as a story · 1 points
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