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Most search applications using Apache Lucene assign a unique id, or primary key, to each indexed document. While Lucene itself does not...

One of Lucene's useful transactional features is index durability which ensures that, once you successfully call IndexWriter.commit , ...

You may remember my first blog post describing how the Lucene developers eat our own dog food by using a Lucene search application to find ...

Lucene's suggest module offers a number of fun auto-suggest implementations to give a user live search suggestions as they type each ch...

There have been several recent, quiet improvements to Lucene that, taken together, have made it surprisingly simple to add geospatial distan...

In Lucene's facet module we recently added support for dynamic range faceting , to show how many hits match each of a dynamic set of ran...

IP cameras have come a long ways, and recently I upgraded some old cameras to these new Lorex cameras (model LNB2151/LNB2153) and I'm v...

Sometimes you need to play sounds or music (digitized samples) from Python, which really ought to be a simple task. Yet it took me a little...

Last year, Han Jiang's Google Summer of Code project was a big success : he created a new (now, default) postings format for substantia...

Three exciting Lucene features in one day Yesterday was a productive day: suddenly, there are three exciting new features coming to Lucene...

Lucene now has a nice set of suggesters that use an analyzer to tokenize the suggestions: AnalyzingSuggester , FuzzySuggester and Analyzi...

It's been almost two years since I originally factored out the fast and accurate Compact Language Detector from the Chromium project ...