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Mastering Google App Engine

You're reading from   Mastering Google App Engine Build robust and highly scalable web applications with Google App Engine

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784396671
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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As the amount of information contained by computers grew, so came the need to search for desirable pieces of information, which led to a whole separate field of information retrieval in computer science. Based on those principles, one of the most famous and dominant implementations is a Java library called Lucene, which was written by Doug Cutting back in 1999. This man actually wanted to build a search engine so he first went out to create this library. Doug Cutting is also the man behind Hadoop, a distributed large scale data processing solution. Anyway, this Lucene library was later used in an open source search engine called Nutch, which was yet again a brainchild of Doug Cutting.

Later, people came up with brighter ideas around Lucene and added some web interface and RESTful API around this library and the result was SOLR. A similar product is ElasticSearch and both provide RESTful APIs, the ability to have a very large data set to be searched by distributing over multiple...

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