Many of our customers use AWS EC2. In the context of Elasticsearch consulting or support, one question we often get is: should we use AWS Elasticsearch Service instead of deploying Elasticsearch ourselves? The

One of the things that were extensively changed in Solr 6.0 is the Streaming Expressions and what we can do with them (hint: amazing stuff!). We already described Solr SQL

With the recent release of Apache Lucene and Solr 6, we should familiarize ourselves with the juicy features that come with them. We have the new default Similarity implementation -

With the release of Solr 7 the community around it produced yet another great version of this search engine. As usual, there is an extensive list of changes, bug fixes

Another Lucene/Solr Revolution happened on September 12-15, 2017 in Las Vegas. Sematext was there, exhibiting AND giving two talks! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and attended our two talks: Optimize Is (Not) Bad

TL;DR: The main question here is: How Does Java 9 Work with Elasticsearch 6? It works well, but don't expect miracles. Unless you're using G1, then there are some miracles. With

Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. Elasticsearch is a great piece of software.

Note: This is a guest post by Jochen Kressin, the CTO of floragunn GmbH, the makers of Search Guard, an open-source X-Pack Security alternative. In this article, we show you how

Last updated on Jan 11, 2018 We are all used to the Solr API that has been present in Solr from its beginnings. We send the data using HTTP protocol,

Sematext Solr AutoComplete is an open-source Solr add-on that provides suggest-as-you-type functionality. In this post we'll explain how you can install it, load the autocomplete collection/core with suggestions and how