And this would be done fairly often, as anytime someone hits one of our main
pages it would be executed.

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Jason King <[email protected]> wrote:

> I guess the question is, should I even be using lucene for this?
>
> Basically, the collection is of 'new classified ads' / ads that are less
> then 2 weeks old.
>
> When someone hits the main ads page, I want to have a table/div containing
> a random set of 20 new ads from that catalog.
>
> The more I think about it, I might just not use the catalog at all. This
> isn't a 'search' mechanism anyway, so I think I'm going to replan this and
> go to the db directly.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Matthew Woodward 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Jason Allen <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > I have a collection built that could potentially have 10,000 or more
>> > records.
>> >
>> > I need to query this catalog and grab 20 random records from it.
>>
>> What are the specific types of documents (or are they web pages?)
>> you're using to create your collection, and how is the collection
>> getting populated?
>>
>> Is 10,000 records the upper limit or will it grow beyond that?
>>
>> How up to the minute does the random document selection need to be?
>> (I'm assuming not very given that you're pulling at random.)
>>
>> Maybe you should populate a database or in-memory collection of some
>> sort (array, whatever) with basic metadata and do the randomization
>> piece from that since that's dead simple--just a random idea.
>>
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