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More than two years have passed since we saw the last major version of Java search engine Apache Lucene and NoSQL server Apache Solr. The long-awaited releases of version 5.0 are here.

When it comes to web servers, Apache is the leader of the pack in terms of web site numbers and growth. However, there are alternatives out there that might be just as good for your company or project.

A major leap has been made for the newest version of Apache Hive, now proudly stepping up to version 1.0.0. After nine years of work, Hive can now embrace the new naming structure and all that comes with it.

Typesafe found what they like to call a ‘golden nugget’ in some of their latest developer survey results and wanted to investigate the unexpected uptake of Apache Spark. Their responses paint a promising and exciting picture for Spark adoption.

How many different devices will be creating information in future? How will they send that information back? And what role will analytics play in future?

A new Spring project has seen the light of day. Spring Sync has arrived to facilitate the communication between client applications and Spring-backends. How exactly does it work?

The latest Tomcat update, 7.0.56, is now available, bringing support for Websocket 1.1.

Apache Syncope will assist companies with digital identity management in an effort to ensure that data regulations are being followed.

CEO Gus Robertson talks about the company’s growing user base and what it is that’s made Nginx the most popular web server

In a pairing described as ‘magical’, Apache Spark and Cassandra have pooled their resources to deliver analytics up to “100 times” swifter in-memory, and 10 times speedier on disk.

Whilst multitude of users are making first steps towards number 8, Java build tool gets a head start on preparing for next iteration of the platform.

Updates pivoted towards Oracle’s platform update, along with a series of feature tweaks.

Following a high profile endorsement from Cloudera earlier this month, Hadoop oriented hatchling and MapReduce contender is judged mature enough to take next big steps.

Following a “mind-boggling” debugging marathon, Apache Software Foundation declares GitHub infrastructure integration better than ever, with some cool new features.