Sounds like an interesting improvement to propose.
It will also depend on various factors, such as number of unique terms in a
field, field type, etc.
Which field types are giving you the most trouble and how many unique values
do they have? And do you specify a facet.method or just let it default?
What release of Solr are you on? Are you using "trie" for numeric fields?
Are these mostly string fields? Any boolean fields?
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Laird
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 4:01 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: How to cap facet counts beyond a specified limit
We have an index with ~100M documents and I am looking for a simple way to
speed up faceted searches. Is there a relatively straightforward way to
stop counting the number of matching documents beyond some specifiable
value? For our needs we don't really need to know that a particular facet
has exactly 14,203,527 matches - just knowing that there are "more than a
million" is enough. If I could somehow limit the hit counts to a million
(say) it seems like that could decrease the work required to compute the
values (just stop counting after the limit is reached) and potentially
improve faceted search time - especially when we have 20-30 fields to facet
on. Has anyone else tried to do something like this?
Many thanks for comments and info,
Sincerely,
andy laird | gettyimages | 206.925.6728
