Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-14 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 13, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: On 2/12/07, Erik Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And just for the record, Solr drives Collex @ NINES: http:// www.nines.org/collex which implements tagging along with faceted and full-text search. I've recently hacked our system such that the

Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-13 Thread Yonik Seeley
On 2/12/07, Erik Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Gmail Account wrote: This would be great! I can't help with the solution but I am very interested in using it if one of you guys can figure it out. I can't wait to see if this works out. And just for the record,

Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-12 Thread Gmail Account
, February 06, 2007 4:51 AM Subject: Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets... Yonik - this is great! Thanks for codifying the use cases and providing a possible implementation. I'll tinker with this more when I can. Erik On Feb 4, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: I was confusing myself

Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-12 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 12, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Gmail Account wrote: This would be great! I can't help with the solution but I am very interested in using it if one of you guys can figure it out. I can't wait to see if this works out. And just for the record, Solr drives Collex @ NINES: http://

Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-06 Thread Erik Hatcher
Yonik - this is great! Thanks for codifying the use cases and providing a possible implementation. I'll tinker with this more when I can. Erik On Feb 4, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: I was confusing myself too much without nailing down more concrete examples, so I

JOIN in Solr (was: convert custom facets to Solr facets...)

2007-02-03 Thread Brian Whitman
On Feb 2, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Ryan McKinley wrote: I would LOVE to see a JOIN in SOLR. I have an index of artists, albums, and songs. The artists have lots of metadata and the songs very little. I'd love to be able to search for songs using the artist metadata. Right now, I have to add all

Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-03 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Feb 3, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote: On 2/3/07, Erik Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 2, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: One downside of doing joins is that it makes it pretty hard to distribute/federate in the future because a document doesn't stand alone. The

Re: JOIN in Solr (was: convert custom facets to Solr facets...)

2007-02-03 Thread Walter Underwood
We would never use JOIN. We denormalize for speed. Not a big deal. wunder == Search Guru, Netflix On 2/3/07 11:16 AM, Brian Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 2, 2007, at 4:46 PM, Ryan McKinley wrote: I would LOVE to see a JOIN in SOLR. I have an index of artists, albums, and

Re: JOIN in Solr (was: convert custom facets to Solr facets...)

2007-02-03 Thread Ryan McKinley
On 2/3/07, Walter Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We would never use JOIN. We denormalize for speed. Not a big deal. I'm looking at an application where speed is not the only concern. If I can remove the need for a 'normalized' and 'denormalized' form it would be a HUGE win. Essentially

Re: JOIN in Solr (was: convert custom facets to Solr facets...)

2007-02-03 Thread Ryan McKinley
oops!!! I meant to reply directly to Brian - an old friend of mine from graduate school... next time I'll check the reply-to button more closely.

Re: JOIN in Solr (was: convert custom facets to Solr facets...)

2007-02-03 Thread Erik Hatcher
I'm quite open to NOT having a JOIN in Solr if flattening the model still provides the querying capability desired. I've not fully followed the specifics that Yonik has mentioned on this thread, but it certainly is the case that denormalizing/flattening our domain does not exactly lend

convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-02 Thread Erik Hatcher
Before Solr had facets, I built my own implementation in a much cruder and less performant way into Collex as custom request handlers. Now the performance issue of warming up the cache needs to be addressed. I'm going to upgrade Solr and adjust the application to work with the built-in

Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-02 Thread Yonik Seeley
One downside of doing joins is that it makes it pretty hard to distribute/federate in the future because a document doesn't stand alone. A flat structure for tagging could be to add a taguser and tag field to the actual document each time a user tagged a document. - all collected objects

Re: convert custom facets to Solr facets...

2007-02-02 Thread Ryan McKinley
The index has a type field: A for archived objects and C for collectibles. All the original objects are indexed in batch fashion as type A. Users collect objects and tags/annotates them. When a user collects an object, a document of type C is indexed with the original objects unique