I'm also interested in this. Same situation.
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 10:27 -0400, Keswani, Nitin - BLS CTR wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My data model consist of different types of data. Each data type has its own
> characteristics
>
> If I include the unique characteristics of each type of data, my single Solr
> Document could end up containing 300-400 fields.
>
> In order to drill down to this data set I would have to provide faceting on
> most of these fields so that I can drilldown to very small set of
> Documents.
>
> Here are some of the questions :
>
> 1) What's the best approach when dealing with documents with large number of
> fields .
> Should I keep a single document with large number of fields or split my
> document into a number of smaller documents where each document would
> consist of some fields
>
> 2) From an operational point of view, what's the drawback of having a single
> document with a very large number of fields.
> Can Solr support documents with large number of fields (say 300 to 400).
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nitin Keswani
>
