Re: Federated / Distributed search using Solr

2018-12-29 Thread Erick Erickson
bq. I have 3 indexes and all three use different schema. I assume that the user can't indicate a field to search against or this is a total non-starter. Even if you are just sending bare search terms to the different collections, how are you going to compare returns from them? Scores aren't compa

Re: Federated / Distributed search using Solr

2018-12-29 Thread Gus Heck
If the indexes are on the same cluster, you can use an alias for querying. Updating via aliases doesn't work well (updates go to the first collection listed only) unless it's a time routed alias. http://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_6/collections-api.html#createalias On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 4:

Federated / Distributed search using Solr

2018-12-29 Thread Steven White
Hi everyone, Does Solr support federated / distributed search when the schema of the 2 or more indexes are different? I have 3 indexes and all three use different schema. However, the unique key field name is the same across all 3 indexes. I need to search on all 3 indexes and return results as