NoSQL backers Membase and CouchOne just announced that they are merging to create Couchbase, Inc. Combining the caching and clustering technology of Membase,...
0 replies - 20865 views - 02/09/11 by Katie Mckinsey in Daily Dose
Mark Reinhold just posted the new community bylaws draft for the Open JDK. Mark Wielaard, a Red Hat engineer, posted his feedback in the comments and Simon...
5 replies - 28684 views - 02/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Gustavo Fernades, Senior Open Source Consultant at Sourcesense UK,
recently did a talk detailing six Solr tuning tips that can help
significantly reduce...
0 replies - 11870 views - 02/03/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Solr FunctionQueries allow you to modify the ranking of a search query in Solr by applying functions to the results.
There are a list of out-of-box...
0 replies - 10150 views - 02/02/11 by Kelvin Tan in News
We've all seen them on various websites. Crappy search utilities. They are a constant reminder that search is not something you should take lightly...
2 replies - 63647 views - 01/25/11 by Peter ___ in Articles
Apache Tomcat has full support for Java EE 6 specs this week, including Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and JSP EL. The developers just announced that the new release...
0 replies - 16789 views - 01/17/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Solr has been able to produce JSON results for a long time, by adding wt=json
to any query. A new capability has recently been added to allow
indexing in...
0 replies - 11026 views - 01/13/11 by Yonik Seeley in Articles
A new version of Apache Cassandra is available today. New features include large row support (up to two billion columns per row), secondary indexes, and...
0 replies - 18162 views - 01/11/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Apache OODT (Object-Oriented Data Technology) was originally developed in 1998 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This week, the project was accepted as a...
0 replies - 22230 views - 01/06/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
2010 was a year of exodus for many Sun employees who disliked the new corporate philosophy under Oracle. The blogger Pelegri has compiled a list of companies...
0 replies - 22062 views - 01/04/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
CouchDB is one of the most famous open source document-oriented databases available on the web.This article described my experience with CouchDB during an...
2 replies - 5040 views - 12/21/10 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
It looks like Google may hold on to the Android 3.0 title for another more spectacular future release. As it stands, a source reports that the next version...
0 replies - 26993 views - 12/20/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
It was two years ago when Sun released MySQL 5.1. Today the open source project's formidable user base will finally get the next major release, MySQL 5.5. ...
0 replies - 27811 views - 12/17/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
Aza Raskin, the current Creative Lead for Mozilla's Firefox browser, is leaving January 1, 2011 to found a new startup called Massive Health. After two...
1 replies - 22826 views - 12/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
A few weeks ago, CloudBees, a cloud infrastructure that lets developers write code, test it, and put it into production on a PaaS, acquired InfraDNA—the...
0 replies - 24229 views - 12/15/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose
