Lucene & Solr Year 2011 in Review
An excellent review of the developments in Lucene and Solr for 2011.
“Big data” may be the buzz words for 2012 but Lucene and Solr are part of the buzz saw (along with SQL and NoSQL databases) tool kit to tame “bag data.”
If you have the time, you would be well advised to at least monitory the user if not developer lists for both projects.