fyi... a candidate to replace our direct lucene usage (to be compared vs compass).
-Vincent Begin forwarded message: > From: Grant Ingersoll <[email protected]> > Date: November 10, 2009 5:01:27 PM CEST > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > , [email protected] > Subject: [ANN] Solr 1.4.0 Released > > Apache Solr 1.4 has been released and is now available for public > download! > http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ > > Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search > platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include > powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic > clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) > handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and > index replication, and it powers the search and navigation features of > many of the world's largest internet sites. > > Solr is written in Java and runs as a standalone full-text search > server > within a servlet container such as Tomcat. Solr uses the Lucene Java > search library at its core for full-text indexing and search, and has > REST-like HTTP/XML and JSON APIs that make it easy to use from > virtually > any programming language. Solr's powerful external configuration > allows it to > be tailored to almost any type of application without Java coding, and > it has an extensive plugin architecture when more advanced > customization is required. > > > New Solr 1.4 features include > - Major performance enhancements in indexing, searching, and faceting > - Revamped all-Java index replication that's simple to configure and > can replicate config files > - Greatly improved database integration via the DataImportHandler > - Rich document processing (Word, PDF, HTML) via Apache Tika > - Dynamic search results clustering via Carrot2 > - Multi-select faceting (support for multiple items in a single > category to be selected) > - Many powerful query enhancements, including ranges over arbitrary > functions, and nested queries of different syntaxes > - Many other plugins including Terms for auto-suggest, Statistics, > TermVectors, Deduplication > > Getting Started > -------------------- > New to Solr? Follow the steps below to get up and running ASAP. > > 1. Download Solr at http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/lucene/solr/ > 2. Check out the tutorial at http://lucene.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html > 3. Read the Solr wiki (http://wiki.apache.org/solr) to learn more > 4. Join the community by subscribing to [email protected] > 5. Give Back (Optional, but encouraged!) See > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute > > For more information on Apache Solr, see http://lucene.apache.org/solr _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
