Adrien Grand
Distinguished Software Engineer I
Adrien is a Lucene committer at The Apache Software Foundation and a software engineer at Elastic, where he works on improving Elasticsearch. He has worked with Apache Lucene for a decade. When he’s not tackling search-related problems from his home in Normandy, France, he enjoys horseback riding.
Apache Lucene 10 is out! Improvements to Lucene's hardware efficiency & more
Apache Lucene 10 has been released, with a focus on hardware efficiency! Check out the main release highlights.
What happened in Lucene land in 2023?
2023 has been another big year for Apache Lucene, this blog reviews major milestones of 2023
Apache Lucene 9.9, the fastest Lucene release ever
Lucene 9.9 brings major speedups to query evaluation. Here are the performance improvements observed in nightly benchmarks & optimization resources.
MAXSCORE & block-max MAXSCORE: More skipping with block-max MAXSCORE
Learn about MAXSCORE, block-max MAXSCORE & WAND. Improve the MAXSCORE algorithm to evaluate disjunctive queries more like a conjunctive query.
Less merging and faster ingestion in Elasticsearch 8.11
Discover how Elasticsearch 8.11 improved its indexing buffer, resulting in less segment merging and faster ingestion.