On Nov 27, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Binkley, Peter wrote:
You've got enough flexibility in the way you
set up your Lucene index, and Lucene search results give you access to
the term weights for each hit,
It does?
so you can tell which fields actually
matched.
You can?
I'm curious how you're doing that! Especially with Solr in the picture.
There would probably be a lot of optimizations you could do within
Solr
to help with this kind of thing. Art and I talked a little about
this at
the ILS symposium: why not nestle the XML db inside Solr alongside
Lucene? Solr could then manage the indexing of the contents of the db,
and augment your search results with data from the db: you could get
full records as part of your search results without having to store
them
in the Lucene index.
There has been discussions in the Solr community about having hooks
added to allow Solr plugins to pull data from external sources to
return with search results. I don't think Solr itself is the entry
point to these external systems, as that seems to couple things a bit
too much for my tastes, so I think you'd still want to manage the
external data source separately from indexing into Solr, but having
hooks for Solr to return hybrid results could be just the ticket here.
Erik
