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 the last 4 years, we’ve also been sharing our knowledge […]
Generating Word Embeddings with Gensim’s word2vec
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 use word2vec to derive synonyms from a dataset. Before we […]
Field Stats for Elasticsearch 6.x
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 statistics for fields of each index. For example, the minimum […]
Elasticsearch online training classes in 2018
Since we’ve been working with Elasticsearch on a daily basis for more than 7 years now and know so much about it, we like helping others improve their knowledge of these technologies, not only by sharing our knowledge in meetups […]
Solr online training classes in 2018
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 technologies, not only by sharing our knowledge in meetups and […]
Solr 7 – New Replica Types
Last updated on Jan 8, 2018 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 and improvements that were […]
Sematext Solr AutoComplete: Introduction and Howto
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 to run queries to get those suggestions back. Why Sematext […]
Solr New Metrics API: Quick look at Solr 6.4
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 their analysis. We have our SPM which can monitor half […]
Solr Query Segmenter: How to Provide Better Search Experience
One way to create a better search experience is to understand the user intent. One of the phases in that process is query understanding, and one simple step in that direction is query segmentation. In this post, we’ll cover what query segmentation […]