Lucene & Solr Resources

• Apache Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely in Java. It is a technology suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search, especially cross-platform.
• Apache Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project. Its major features include powerful full-text search, hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, and rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling. Solr is highly scalable, providing distributed search and index replication.
• Lucene Revolution is a conference dedicated to open source search. The conference brings together developers, thought leaders, and market makers, and is an event tailored for anyone that is using, or considering, Apache Lucene/Solr or LucidWorks Enterprise for search applications.
• The Solr Resource page on the Solr Wiki has a collection of resources that talk about Solr, or provide case studies of using Solr.
• The Lucene Wiki page has numerous resources including latest news, code snippets, how-tos and FAQs.
• An Innovent Solr case study on a Solr-based search solution which is extremely fast to index, returns search results very quickly and of high quality, and is capable of many flexible forms of linguistic manipulation.
• An Innovent Solr case study on how Innovent assisted an online medical equipment marketplace site with an evaluation and implementation of a Solr/Lucene based, commerce search solution.