SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - August 24, 2009) -
Lucid Imagination, a commercial
company dedicated to supporting open source
Apache Lucene and
Apache Solr search technologies,
today announced the immediate availability of
LucidGaze for Lucene™, a free monitoring capability for
installations using the Java Lucene search library as part of its ongoing
efforts to provide value-add software and services for the Lucene user
community. LucidGaze for Lucene, developed by Lucid Imagination, uses
innovative technology to reverse-engineer characteristics of the Lucene
application and provide a framework for developers to retrieve detailed
data and statistics to improve application management.
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Monitoring and optimizing Lucene-based applications has long required
custom programming due to the lack of built-in monitoring tools. With
LucidGaze for Lucene, application developers can now easily harvest data
such as the rate of queries, query speed, text analysis times, memory
consumption, changes to index structure and other Lucene specific
information; analyze the performance and efficiency of their
implementations, and optimize their search applications.
"Performance and scalability have been the hallmarks of Apache Lucene,"
said Eric Gries, CEO of Lucid Imagination. "In response to the requests and
feedback from the Lucene user community, we are pleased to offer the
LucidGaze for Lucene performance monitoring tool. We believe it will make
it a bit easier for developers to get the most out of their Lucene-based
applications."
LucidGaze for Lucene supports a number of monitors -- statistics collectors
which aggregate information about different key aspects of Lucene search
operations. These monitors can be controlled and reset individually,
providing methods to access the statistics within each. The monitors
included in this version are:
-- Analysis Monitor -- information about the different analyzers and
filters used to create the index.
-- Document Monitor -- information on documents and fields added to or
retrieved from a Lucene index.
-- Index Monitor -- statistics on buffers, memory usage, Lucene index
readers/writers and add/commit times.
-- Search Monitor -- information about search cycle times.
-- Store Monitor -- provides number of directory instances.
Many enterprises have adopted Lucene/Solr based on the combination of
strong technology and clear open source cost savings. While Lucid
Imagination already offers a free
monitoring tool for Solr implementations, LucidGaze for Lucene
has been developed for enterprises that use Lucene without Solr. It
supports Apache Lucene version 2.4.1 and later.
LucidGaze for Lucene is available now as a free download from Lucid
Imagination. To download please visit:
www.lucidimagination.com/Downloads.
About Lucid Imagination
Lucid Imagination is a commercial company dedicated to Apache Lucene
technology. The company provides free certified distributions,
commercial-grade support, training, high-level consulting and value-added
software for Lucene and Solr. Lucid Imagination's goal is to serve as a
central resource for the entire Lucene community and make them more
productive. Lucid Imagination is a privately held venture-funded company.
The investors include Granite Ventures, Walden International and In-Q-Tel.
Contact Information: Contact:
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Lois Paul & Partners
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