Hi Mortiz, You can take a look on the project ZOIE - http://code.google.com/p/zoie/. I think it's that what are you looking for.
br Krzysztof On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Moritz Mädler <m...@moritz-maedler.de> wrote: > Hi List, > > we are running a marketplace which has about a comparable functionality like > ebay (auctions, fixed-price items etc). > The items are placed on the market by users who want to sell their goods. > > Currently we are using Sphinx as an indexing engine, but, as Sphinx returns > only document ids we have to make a > database-query to fetch the data to display. This massively decreases > performance as we have to do two requests to > display data. > > I heard that Solr is able to return a complete dataset and we hope a switch > to Solr can boost perfomance. > A critical question is left and i was not able to find a solution for it in > the docs: Is it possible to update attributes directly in the > index? > An example for better illustration: > We have an index which holds all the auctions (containing auctionid, auction > title) with its current prices(field: current_price). When a user places a > new bid, > is it possible to update the attribute 'current_price' directly in the index > so that we can fetch the current_price from Solr and not from the database? > > I hope you understood my problem. It would be kind if someone can point me to > the right direction. > > Thanks alot! > > Moritz
