Archive for March, 2009

Lucene 2.4.1 available from today

A new official release of Lucene in now available! Lucene 2.4.1 is a bug fix version. We will be able to see more new features in the Lucene 2.9 release (available in developers version). Here I mention all the improvements of Lucene 2.4.1, wich I read from the official lucene’s site: Fixed silent data-loss case [...]

Index scalability using Pig

Here is a really interesting example of how to build an inverted index using Pig. As I have seen in Hadoop, to create a Lucene index you must start from a text file and use MapReduce jobs to build it. Pig however, allows you to retrieve data not just from a text file but from [...]

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