Uwe Schindler

A brief look at how scientific data came under political pressure during the presidency of Donald Trump, and how scientists and data repositories in Europe worked to protect public access to evidence-based research, ensuring access for data science in a well-structured way.

Lucene 10 came out last year in October. One of the changes was about the minimum version requirement of Java 21 – this looks like it allows to introduce new features like native access to file system cache and therefore better memory mapping.

Since version 3 of Apache Lucene and Solr and from the early beginning of Elasticsearch, the general recommendation was to use MMapDirectory as the implementation for index access on disk.