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The power of ActiveMq and virtual topics
24-04-2013 Add a commentActiveMq is an opensource message broker, with lots of enterprise features. And while it’s written in Java, it can be used in almost any environment using one of the interfaces it provides. We used it in a PHP project I’ve worked on recently, with the PHP Stomp extension as the client. If you’re not familiar with [...]
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Solarium 3
03-01-2013 1 CommentA new major version of Solarium (3.0.0) is out! This is the biggest changeset for Solarium since the start of the project, and includes the following: Support only PHP 5.3+ Fully namespaced File restructuring and class renaming Code style switched from Zend Framework 1 to Symfony 2 (but Solarium is still not tied to a [...]
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Benchmarking PHP Solr response data handling
28-02-2012 1 CommentSolr supports multiple output formats. Some are for general use (xml, json) and some are even language specific. If you’re using PHP these are the most logical response writer formats: xml json phps (serialized php) php (php code to execute) On top of that PHP offers multiple ways to parse XML. I’m benchmarking these options [...]
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Solr delay component
04-01-2012 1 CommentFirst of all, why would you want to slow Solr down? After all, it’s great speed is one of the main reasons it’s become so popular. Well, I need to slow Solr down for testing load balancing timeouts / failover and to test parallel execution. Both are hard to do with response times well below [...]
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Solr select query GET vs POST request
22-12-2011 3 CommentsIn most cases a GET request is used to send select queries to Solr. This is how it’s done in most examples, it’s easy to test in the browser and easy to implement. However, Solr also supports POST requests for select queries. This can for instance be useful if you use complex Solr queries with [...]
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New Solarium website
22-06-2011 1 CommentI’ve made lots of progress since my last post about Solarium 2.0: the first release candidate is out (actually for several weeks already!) At that point I decided that Solarium needs a user friendly website, and not just a bunch of documentation pages. It’s been in the works for a few weeks now, and I’ve [...]
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Solarium 2.0
06-05-2011 11 CommentsSeveral weeks ago Solarium 1.0 was released. Since then lots of development has been going on. Many features were added: MoreLikeThis support, range facet, multiQuery facet, DisMax support, geospatial search support and highlighting. The target for these features was originally Solarium 1.1, however I’ve changed the plans. In this post I’ll explain why, and what [...]
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My experiences with writing documentation
12-04-2011 5 CommentsLike most developers I don’t like writing documentation. But when I decided to turn Solarium into an opensource project some months ago I really needed to write quite a bit of documentation, because I feel good documentation is very important for an opensource project (actually, for any project…) But there are many ways to document [...]
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What features would you like to get in Solarium?
08-04-2011 Add a commentSolarium is quite a young project, and there are still a lot of features to add. The project has been gaining some interest recently and I would really like to know which features are most wanted. So, I’ve created a poll. The most requested features will be placed at the top of the roadmap.
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Solr update performance
08-04-2011 1 CommentWhen I started working with Solr I issued updates just like I was used to do with databases: a single command followed by a commit. Later I discovered this was far from optimal, and started using different update strategies. To demonstrate the differences I’ve done some simple benchmarks with three different update strategies, and as [...]
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