Commentary: A decade ago Apache Lucene and Apache Solr merged to improve both projects. The projects recently split for the same reason, which is a really good thing for users of search services.

But Solr also has the Dismax and eDismax parsers, which are a better for normal people: You can click one of them at the bottom of the admin query screen or add defType=dismax to your query string.

Proof of concept exploit code was published online this month for two Apache Solr vulnerabilities, signaling that attacks are probably on their way as hackers will find ways to weaponize the two ...

Solr is a search engine server built with Lucene as its core. Lucene was created in 1999 by Doug Cutting, better known as the creator of Apache Hadoop , and has been used both companies like AOL ...

Hackers hit over 1,400 Apache Solr servers at the end of February in order to install once again, not ransomware, but a cryptocurrency miner. The attack on Apache Solr servers bears some ...