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Re:Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0 by awj on Friday October 12, 2012 @01:29PM (#4646010)
The spatial enhancements are pretty exciting. You can support a lot of interesting things when search can be polygon queries against polygon data. WKT is a pretty fatty format though.
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Re:Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0 by blutonium on Saturday October 13, 2012 @05:17AM (#4648224)
Spatial is great! What's better than WKT though? WKB?
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Re:Apache releases Lucene Core 4.0 and Solr 4.0 by awj on Monday October 15, 2012 @12:43PM (#4655856)
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Either way you (potentially) have a lot of data to push around, but encoding things as text that could largely be fixed width binary floats really bloats them up.
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