Suggestions for drill downs

2008-12-04 Thread Muralidharan V
We are evaluating lucene for a product search engine. One requirement is that we be able to suggest the top n brands(the ones with most products in the result set) for a given search term to further refine the search query. The brand is stored in a separate field and searches are performed against

Re: Suggestions for drill downs

2008-12-04 Thread Muralidharan V
this helps > > -John > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Muralidharan V <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > We are evaluating lucene for a product search engine. One requirement is > > that we be able to suggest the top n brands(the ones with most products >

cross-field AND queries with field boosting

2009-01-25 Thread Muralidharan V
Hi, We have documents with multiple fields conceptually, and a document is considered a match if each of the terms in the query is in any one of the fields(i.e a 'cross-field' AND). A simple way to do this would be to dump all of these conceptual fields into one lucene field and do the query w

Re: cross-field AND queries with field boosting

2009-01-28 Thread Muralidharan V
Karsten, Thanks for the suggestion. After some research, payloads and BoostingTermQuery is what we ended up using. Thanks, Murali On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Karsten F. wrote: > > Hi Murali, > > I think a search with 4 * 5 = 20 Boolean Clauses will not be a performance > problem >

Re: Running 20mil queries against an index

2006-05-23 Thread Muralidharan V
On 5/23/06, Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I have quite a bit of RAM (~20gb) And I once had a 486 with 2MB RAM, which was later 'upgraded' to 4MB :-)