Finally long awaited Sphinx 3.0 is here. Its a major major rewrite of Sphinx and comes with tons of new features. Here is quick summary of new features I...
Showing a price range selector for visitor to narrow down search is a common use case for eCommerce sites. Usually developers try to use facets for this purpose which...
In Solr 6.x if you are getting exceptions like java.nio.charset.MalformedInputException: Input length = 1 and unable to load/reload the core, then most likely you are having issues is synonyms...
If you are banging your head because of this exception in Solr 4.6 you should do following things. Be sure that solrconfig.xml of your core has <luceneMatchVersion>4.6</luceneMatchVersion> tag. Be...
Sorl admin interface is powerful tool to manage cores, debugging and lot of other stuff. At same time this can be very dangerous tool, because this page is open...
Delta indexing is way of designing indexes so only the updated data is read from db and indexed by Sphinx. Imagine a blog with 100 million posts. As posts...
Solr is a great tool for full-text searching and more, from Apache Software Foundation. Its based on Apache Lucene search library and extends it. In this post I will...
Sphinx Search allows use of custom expressions, where we can have internal attributes, conditions, arithmetic operators, and functions to calculate custom values for each document/record. It then allows sorting these...
Recently we came across a project where we had to make a domains database searchable with high accuracy. Domain names are special because they don’t have any word separators...
