Working with Enterprise Search Relevancy Challenges

When enterprise searches are built from scratch, evaluation of the search quality remains key challenges of organizations implementing it. It always gives a feel of living in the darkness all the time. Such implementations demand enormous efforts and time. The chart below demonstrates a typical...

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SOLR Security with ManifoldCF

This article explains how to implement SOLR “document level security” using Manifold Connector Framework. ManifoldCF is an open source framework for pulling content out of a repository and sending it on to targets such as SOLR via a plug-in style and connector-based...

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Building Docker image with Solr

There are two ways to build a Docker image:

Running an image, modifying and committing it. This requires access to the live container.Using Dockerfile to build it.

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Getting Started with Docker

According to the Docker's website, "Docker is an open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications."

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Using Solr and TikaOCR to search text inside an image

Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source OCR engine available and with Apache Tika 1.7 you can now use the awesome Tesseract OCR parser within Tika!

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Ontologies Vs Taxonomies Vs Thesauri, and its place on the Semantic Web

Ontology :

An ontology formally defines a common set of terms that are used to describe and represent a domain. An ontology is domain specific, and it is used to describe and represent an area of knowledge. It contains...

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Solr: Backed up? Now you can restore it back

One of the lesser known but cool features of ReplicationHandler is the support it provides for index backup. You must have used ReplicationHandler in your project for replicating index from master to slave instances....

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Solr Optimistic Concurrency Unlocked!

If you have multiple clients updating documents, it's really critical to ensure that the newer version of the document is never overwritten by the older version. To address this problem, what you need is concurrency...

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