We just switched over to storing our data directly in Solr as
compressed JSON fields at http://frugalmechanic.com. So far it's
working out great. Our detail pages (e.g.:
http://frugalmechanic.com/auto-part/817453-33-2084-kn-high-performance-air-filter)
now make a single Solr request to grab the p
Hey AJ,
For simplicity sake, I am using Solr to serve as storage and search for
http://researchwatch.net.
The dataset is 110K NSF grants from 1999 to 2009. The faceting is all
dynamic fields and I use a catch all to copy all fields to a default
text field. All fields are also stored and used f
If you're happy with disk sizes and indexing&search performance, there
are still holes:
Documents update instead of fields, so when you have a million
documents that say "German" and should say "French", you have to
reindex a million documents.
There are no tools for managing distributed indexes,
