Use Cases for Elasticsearch: Document Store

I’ll be giving an introductory talk about Elasticsearch twice in July, first at Developer Week Nürnberg, then at Java Forum…

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Goodbye Sense – Welcome Alternatives?

I only recently noticed that Sense, the Chrome Plugin for Elasticsearch has been pulled from the app store by its…

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An Alternative to the Twitter River – Index Tweets in Elasticsearch with Logstash

For some time now I’ve been using the Elasticsearch Twitter river for streaming conference tweets to Elasticsearch. The river runs…

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A Tour Through elasticsearch-kopf

When I needed a plugin to display the cluster state of Elasticsearch or needed some insight into the indices I…

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The Absolute Basics of Indexing Data

Ever wondered how a search engine works? In this post I would like to show you a high level view…

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What Is Special About This? Significant Terms in Elasticseach

I have been using Elasticsearch a few times now for doing analytics of twitter data for conferences. Popular hashtags and…

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Prefix and Suffix Matches in Solr

Search engines are all about looking up strings. The user enters a query term that is then retrieved from the…

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See Your Solr Cache Sizes: Eclipse Memory Analyzer

Solr uses different caches to prevent too much IO access and calculations during requests. When indexing doesn’t happen too frequently…

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