I'm puzzled on whether or not Solr is the right system for solving this problem I've got. I'm using some Solr indexes for autocompletion, and I have a desire to rank the results by their value to the requesting user. Essentially, I'll tally the number of times the user has chosen particular results, and I have a need to include that value in the process of sorting and limiting results.
This doesn't seem like a request that would be un-typical, but I'm wondering how Solr experts suggest it be done? It seems impractical to hold my scores elsewhere and ask Solr for unlimited results and then do the ordering/limiting on my side.. but I don't see an obvious way to do this within Solr itself, though the JOIN functionality and the Function Query stuff look like they might be a part of the right solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Phill
