Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-12 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jan 8, 2007, at 3:13 AM, Chris Hostetter wrote: : with a single schema -- but dynamicFields are used to store category : specific fields, so that if you are doing a category specific search, : category specific filters can be offered to you... : :

Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-09 Thread Mekin Maheshwari
: http://cnet.search.com/search?chkpt=astg.cnet.fd.search.cnetq=canontag=srch I just so happen to have a bit of insight into how that page works, and while it's true that it queries multiple indexes with differnet schemas, it makes no attepts to merge the results -- the product results come from

Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-09 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 1/9/07, Mekin Maheshwari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any cost to using dynamicFields ? Very little. A dynamicField is created on demand during indexing or searching, but the SchemaField created only has 4 pointers in it. dynamicField is a Solr concept, not a Lucene one... so the

Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-09 Thread J.J. Larrea
+2 cents: At 2:43 PM +0530 1/9/07, Mekin Maheshwari wrote: In general I felt that smaller indexes with different requirements might be more flexible than 1 large index (Would a 3G index considered large ?). eg. backing up the index, deploying a fresh index, etc. But Solr does address most of

Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Hostetter
: with a single schema -- but dynamicFields are used to store category : specific fields, so that if you are doing a category specific search, : category specific filters can be offered to you... : : http://shopper.cnet.com/4144-6501_9-0-1.html?query=canon : : Could you elaborate a bit more

Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-07 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jan 5, 2007, at 1:59 AM, Chris Hostetter wrote: : The issue is best described with an example: : search for canon - matches multiple categories, which will have very : different schemas : http://cnet.search.com/search? chkpt=astg.cnet.fd.search.cnetq=canontag=srch I just so happen to

Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-04 Thread Mekin Maheshwari
Thanks Chris. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FederatedSearch Thats useful I might be getting close to that size soon. The issue is best described with an example: search for canon - matches multiple categories, which will have very different schemas

Re: Searching multiple indices (solr newbie)

2007-01-04 Thread Chris Hostetter
: The issue is best described with an example: : search for canon - matches multiple categories, which will have very : different schemas : http://cnet.search.com/search?chkpt=astg.cnet.fd.search.cnetq=canontag=srch I just so happen to have a bit of insight into how that page works, and while