How are you getting your documents into Solr? Because if you're using SolrJ it's a moot point because a binary format is used.
I haven't done any specific comparisons, but I'd be surprised if JSON took longer. And removing a whole operation from your update chain that had to be kept fed and watered is worth the risk of a bit of slowdown. In other words, "Try it and see" <G>... Best Erick On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Jason Toy <jason...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm thinking about modifying my index process to use json because all my > docs are originally in json anyway . Are there any performance issues if I > insert json docs instead of xml docs? A colleague recommended to me to > stay with xml because solr is highly optimized for xml.