No connectors, no Enterprise Search

The Apprapids blog reveils that many companies are willing to migrate from proprietary search solutions to Open source Lucene/Solr ones. But the author suggests a misunderstanding about the abilities of the solution in itself: “It is interesting that any company would choose Solr as their search platform since they do not have any connectors. How [...]

Twitter capacity muliplied by 50 with Lucene indexing

Initially based on MySQL, the search engine of Twitter was not cut out to deal with the explosion of the volume of information exchanged, estimated at 200 million Tweets a day. In early 2010, Twitter has launched a strategic project to replace MySQL with a new modern and progressive search architecture. The architecture based on [...]