Re: Upgrading from lucene 2.9.1 to 5.X

2015-07-17 Thread Erick Erickson
Yes, very significant ones. Also memory usage is vastly improved. On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Shuangyang Yang wrote: > Erick, > > Thank you very much. Is there any performance comparison between these two > versions? Is there any data on the performance? > > Thank you very much > Best Regar

Re: Upgrading from lucene 2.9.1 to 5.X

2015-07-17 Thread Shuangyang Yang
Erick, Thank you very much. Is there any performance comparison between these two versions? Is there any data on the performance? Thank you very much Best Regards --- Shuangyang Yang linkedin.com/in/everyoung On 7/17/15, 10:06 AM, "Erick Erickson" wrote: >Please look at the CHANGES.txt fi

Re: Upgrading from lucene 2.9.1 to 5.X

2015-07-17 Thread Erick Erickson
Please look at the CHANGES.txt file for Solr and/or Lucene, there's a "New Features" section for every release. Best, Erick On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Shuangyang Yang wrote: > Erick, Amish, > > Thank you very much for your reply. They are really helpful. Can you tell > me what are the comp

Re: Upgrading from lucene 2.9.1 to 5.X

2015-07-17 Thread Shuangyang Yang
Erick, Amish, Thank you very much for your reply. They are really helpful. Can you tell me what are the compelling features from 2.9.1 to 5.X? I¹m sure there are many. Thank you very much Best Regards --- Shuangyang Yang linkedin.com/in/everyoung On 7/16/15, 8:41 PM, "Erick Erickson" wrote

Re: Upgrading from lucene 2.9.1 to 5.X

2015-07-16 Thread Erick Erickson
You have two real choices here: 1> reindex your corpus under 5x 2> follow a tortuous upgrade path. Solr/Lucene only promise to be backwards compatible through one major version. Thus Lucene 3x can read Lucene 2x. But Lucene 4x cannot read read Lucene 2x. So you'd have to go 2x->3x->4x->5x with cha

Re: Upgrading from lucene 2.9.1 to 5.X

2015-07-16 Thread Shah, Amish
No, the file format is not compatible. I think it changed in 4.0. Amish On 7/16/15, 6:45 PM, "Shuangyang Yang" wrote: >Hi there, > >We are using lucene 2.9.1 in our product and thinking of upgrading to >5.X. Is it plausible? Is the file format compatible? Is there any guide >document that can