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27 Jun 10 Lucene FieldCache.StringIndex and multiValued fields

Lately I’ve been doing some tests with Lucene MultiValued fields and FieldCache. I’ve load FieldCache.StringIndex of a multiValued  field and I’ve seen some weird stuff happening which I think it’s worth to mention. FieldCache.StringIndex loads an int[] (order) and a String[] (lookup). The String[] contains all the terms on a field. The int[] array contains [...]

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24 May 10 Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010

Yesterday I came back from the Lucene EuroCon 2010, wich took place in Prague. There have been many interesting talks there these days. Some of the slides are already on Slide Share.  Can’t wait for the others to be uploaded. I gave a talk on Thursday about our usage of Solr at Trovit. Covered an [...]

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27 Feb 10 Lucene 2.9.2 and 3.0.1 released

Lucene 2.9.2 and 3.0.1 versions have been released. Both are mainly bug fix versions from the previous ones. The main difference between 2 and 3 versions is that version 3 has no support for java 1.4 and has a more clean API as deprecated stuff has been removed. This means if you want to upgrade [...]

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12 Feb 10 ElasticSearch

It has been a long time since my last post. I have been very busy so unfortunatelly, I have not had the time to write about all I wish. This week I have discovered via twitter a really interesting open source search project, ElasticSearch for the cloud. ElasticSearch has been createded by Shay Banon. It’s [...]

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18 Jun 09 CloudCamp Barcelona 2009

Last Monday took place in Barcelona the first CloudCamp ever done in the city. Altough I was expecting more technical stuff it was good to be there and listen to what people have to say. The first part of the event consisted of some quick explanations from different companies related with cloud computing. Basically, were [...]

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31 May 09 Performance measurement with JMeter 2.3.3

Last week was launched a new release of JMeter. JMeter 2.3.3 is a powerful java application designed to do web application functionality testing and performance measurement, allowing you to do powerful server stress tests. I have been doing some practices with it and I really liked the easy way you can set up a test [...]

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09 May 09 Analyzing java heaps with jmap and jhat

Jmap and jhat are a couple of tools really useful to analyze the memory consume of a java program. Both are included in the JVM 1.6 so there is no need to install any extra stuff. Jmap allows you to create a dump of the java memory heap at any moment in the life of [...]

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23 Apr 09 JAD Java Decomplier

Today I needed to check some old java source from wich only I just kept the class files. Find a java decompiler for my Ubuntu was not as easy job as I tought. Couldn’t find one in the repositories and all what I found in the network was not updated at all. JAD Java Decompiler [...]

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08 Apr 09 Lucene TrieRangeQuery

Lucene TrieRangeQuery is a cool contrib in Lucene (think not yet in the official release) created by Uwe  Schindler. I had heard about it before but learned about it in the LuceneMeetUp in ApacheCon EU. Uwe gave a great speach about it. As I found it a really useful feature will try to explain the [...]

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01 Apr 09 ApacheCon Europe 2009

Last week I had the chance to go to the ApacheCon Europe 2009. The event took place in Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam. I had a really good time in there. Was good to share use cases and experiences in person with people who I had just spoken with in forums. I spend the first two days [...]

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