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Whenever we start a search consulting project from scratch, the obvious question is: which search engine to use? We’ve talked about Elasticsearch vs Solr before, but here we’ll compare Elasticsearch

OpenSearch 2.1 was recently released and here are the highlights: Snapshot Management: you could back up indices using Index Management before, but this only works well for time-series use-cases, like

Apache Solr was always ready to be extended. What was only needed is a binary with the code and the modification of the Solr configuration file, the solrconfig.xml and we

What is Entity Extraction? Entity extraction is, in the context of search, the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields.

What is Entity Extraction? Entity extraction is, in the context of search, the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields.

What is entity extraction? Entity extraction is the process of figuring out which fields a query should target, as opposed to always hitting all fields. For example: how to tell,

Over the years, natural language processing, in the world of search, went from interesting detail to a must have, especially in areas such as e-commerce. Engineers started incorporating classification, synonym

What is Search Relevance Similarity Lucene has a lot of options for configuring similarity. By extension, Solr and Elasticsearch have the same options. Similarity makes the base of your relevancy

During the Entity Extraction For Product Searches talk that Radu Gheorghe and I gave at Activate conference in Montreal last year, we talked about various natural language processing and machine learning algorithms. We

We’ve been working with Elasticsearch since its inception, either with clients on consulting for Elasticsearch products and Elasticsearch production support, or by building our own hosted log management solution. For

During our Activate presentation, we talked about how to do query expansion by dynamically generating synonyms. Instead of statically defining synonyms lists, we showed a demo of how you could

We're excited to announce the release of the Field Stats API plugin for Elasticsearch. The Field Stats API used to be present from Elasticsearch 1.6 to 5.6, to provide efficient

Since we’ve been working with Solr on a daily basis for over a decade now and know so much about it, we like helping others improve their knowledge of these

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

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

As you know, in Sematext we looooove logs and metrics and we enjoy playing with them on a daily basis. We have our Logsene, which is all about logs and