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"In 2004, Solr was created by Yonik Seeley at CNET Networks as an in-house project to add search capability for the company website." I have no idea how I neve
by blakesterz 5y ago
"In 2004, Solr was created by Yonik Seeley at CNET Networks as an in-house project to add search capability for the company website."
I have no idea how I never knew that CNET created Solr! (Solr uses Lucene)
- pyuser583 5y agoI didn’t know CNET created any internal tech.
- notepalf 5y agoSolr is a great tool, we use it at my job to index documents and never had any problem with it. We choosed it over elasticsearch because it seems simpler to setup and administer.
- tomwheeler 5y agoAbout ten years after creating Solr, Yonik Seeley joined Cloudera to work on integration between Apache Hadoop and Solr. There's an interesting connection here: Doug Cutting, perhaps best known as the creator of Hadoop, was the Chief Architect at Cloudera. Most people recognize Doug as the creator of Apache Hadoop, but he also created Lucene. In fact, Hadoop originated from a Lucene subproject called Nutch, which aimed to build a scalable web crawler.
- ideonode 5y agoWasn't the inspiration for Hadoop not just a web crawler use-case, but also Google's famous MapReduce paper?
- tomwheeler 5y agoYes and no. The goal of the Nutch project was simply to create a web crawler, but it hit some scalability limits. Since Google had recently published two papers (MapReduce and Google Filesystem) that were quite relevant to scaling data processing and storage for a web crawler, Doug and Mike created an open source implementation of those ideas and redesigned the web crawler to use it. The technology had many applications beyond a web crawler, of course, but that was the original use case.