#lucene

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.

Elasticsearch founder shares his experiences with Lucene and tells us how Elasticsearch all started with a simple cooking app for his wife.

Every Hadoop vendor wants to be different. MapR opt for NoSQL approach to their special Hadoop sauce

Three years in the making, today sees the release of version 4.0 of open-source search engine Solr and underlying Java library Lucene.

With JAX London, a few weeks away, we caught up with one of the keynoters – Doug Cutting the creator of Big Data sensation Hadoop

After two years of steady development, the distributed, RESTful, open source search server based on Apache Lucene looks set to take on the challenges ahead

The hugely popular open source NoSQL search platform based on Lucene gets big new features in Apache Solr 4.0

The revolutionary type-focused interface that only shows the relevant code has a new version, bringing in code-review connector Gerrit.

Final release candidate for Spring for their 3.1.0 launch, whilst Apache publicise the features behind Lucene and Solr 3.5

The Java community continues to debate the HotSpot compiler shipped with Java 7.

Java 7 has arrived – but not without its share of controversy….

All versions of Lucene Core and Solr affected.

PLUS, SpringSource Tool Suite 2.7.1.

PLUS, IcedTea-Web 1.1, and Seam Reports 3.0.0.Alpha1 released.