Thanks for this -- we're also trying out bobo-browse for Lucene, and early results look pretty enticing. They greatly sped up how fast you read in documents from disk, among other things: http://bobo-browse.wiki.sourceforge.net/
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar<shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Bradford Stephens < > bradfordsteph...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Does the facet aggregation take place on the Solr search server, or >> the Solr client? >> >> It's pretty slow for me -- on a machine with 8 cores/ 8 GB RAM, 50 >> million document index (about 36M unique values in the "author" >> field), a query that returns 131,000 hits takes about 20 seconds to >> calculate the top 50 authors. The query I'm running is this: >> >> >> http://dttest10:8983/solr/select/select?q=java&facet=true&facet.field=authorname >> : >> >> > Is the author field tokenized? Is it multi-valued? It is best to have > untokenized fields. > > Solr 1.4 has huge improvements in faceting performance so you can try that > and see if it helps. See Yonik's blog post about this - > http://yonik.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/solr-faceted-search-performance-improvements/ > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. > -- http://www.roadtofailure.com -- The Fringes of Scalability, Social Media, and Computer Science
