This looks like a great resource, Rauf. Thank you for sharing! Dawid
On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM Rauf Aliev Rauf Aliev <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am presenting my book "*Inside Solr and Lucene: **Algorithms and > Engineering Deep Dive*". (*I have three books out on Amazon—it just so > happened that they were released simultaneously, and there's synergy there > - all of them are about Search & Recsys*). > > "Inside Solr and Lucene" differs from others on the topic of Solr/Lucene in > that it describes the algorithms and data structures used there, starting > from the problem that faced the developers, then examining naive or > straightforward solutions, and further sharing how the architects in > Solr/Lucene solved the problem. In very many cases, these are interesting, > science-intensive solutions, backed by scientific works and papers (links > are available in the book). > > https://testmysearch.com/books/inside-solr.html > > For example, I talk not only about the inverted index, posting lists, and > how segments are stored—you can find it in other books—but also about how > Finite-State Transducer (FST) is used there (this is a graph-based > structure for term dictionaries, storing terms and metadata with shared > prefixes/suffixes, solving high-memory usage and slow prefix/range queries > in large vocabularies by providing compact, O(length of term) lookups); I > talk about Pulsing Codec, Delta Encoding, Skip Lists, PackedInts > (bit-packing algorithm that uses minimal bits per integer block based on > the maximum value), Variable-Length Integers, LSM-Tree, HNSW for vectors, > Roaring Bitmaps, LZ4 and DEFLATE compressions, Memory-Mapped I/O, > Scatter-Gather Query Execution, Hash-Based Routing, SIMD Vectorization and > a lot of other things of this kind. > > For solution architects and search engineers. Paperback and e-book > versions. Worldwide delivery. I hope you will find it useful. > > -- > Rauf Aliev, > [email protected], > Phone +15713428492 (EST) > https://testmysearch.com/raufaliev > https://testmysearch.com > https://hybrismart.com > - >
