Yonik Seeley begins Solr development at CNET
Yonik Seeley starts developing Solr internally at CNET Networks to address their need for a high-performance, XML/HTTP-based search server on top of Lucene.
Significance
This marked the genesis of Solr, born out of a real-world enterprise need to simplify and scale Lucene-based search.
Key facts
- Year
- 2004
- Type
- invention
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA (CNET Networks)