My question is regarding using Solr for doing fast geospatial calculations against multiple locations. For example we have a product that takes 2 to 10 companies at a time (i.e. McDonalds 14,000 Subway 20,000, Duncan Donuts 5000), and identifies and maps any store overlap based on a range between 0.1 or 20 mile radius. As you are probably aware with this many locations performing these calculations on the fly just takes too long. Our initial solution was to process all distance calculations via a nightly process so the system just needs to retrieve them from the database. This for the most part has work really well and returns results no matter how large the dataset almost immediately.
I know that Solr is very fast, especially in the Geospatial queries, but is there any way it could be faster doing millions of on the fly geospatial calculations, then having the calculations already done and just retrieving them from the Database? If it could I would not need to run a nightly process that pre calculates the distances. Thougths? Regards, Joe Joseph Costello Chief Information Officer F&D Reports | Creditntell | ARMS =========================== Information Clearinghouse Inc. & Market Service Inc. 310 East Shore Road, Great Neck, NY 11023 email: jose...@fdreports.com<mailto:jose...@fdreports.com> | Tel: 800.789.0123 ext 112 | Cell: 516.263.6555 | www.informationclearinghouseinc.com<http://www.informationclearinghouseinc.com/> [Help Desk]<mailto:soluti...@fdreports.com> Need Help? Click here<mailto:soluti...@fdreports.com> to request IT Support.
