What's your facet.method? Have you tried setting it both ways? http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters#facet.method
Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Tyreus <dan...@webshots.com> wrote: > We're testing SolrCloud 4.1 for NRT search over hundreds of millions of > documents. I've been really impressed. The query performance is so much > better than we were getting out of our database. > > With filter queries, we're able to get query times of less than 100ms under > moderate load. That's amazing. > > My question today is on faceting. Let me give some examples to help make my > point. > > *fq=state:California* > numFound = 92193 > QTime = *80* > > *fq=state:Calforni* > numFound = 0 > QTime = *8* > > *fq=state:California&facet=true&facet.field=city* > numFound = 92193 > QTime = *1316* > > *fq=city:"San Francisco"&facet=true&facet.field=city* > numFound = 1961 > QTime = *1477* > > *fq=state:Californi&facet=true&facet.field=city* > numFound = 0 > QTime = *1380* > > So filtering is fast and faceting is slow, which is understandable. > > But why is it slow to generate facets on a result set of 0? Furthermore, > why does it take the same amount of time to generate facets on a result set > of 2000 as 100,000 documents? > > This leads me to believe that the FQ is being applied AFTER the facets are > calculated on the whole data set. For my use case it would make a ton of > sense to apply the FQ first and then facet. Is it possible to specify this > behavior or do I need to get into the code and get my hands dirty? > > Best Regards, > Daniel
