Re: Replacing text fields with numeric fields for speed

2010-07-23 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:33:54 +0200 Peter Karich wrote: > Gora, > > just for my interests: > does apache bench sends different queries, or from the logs, or > always the same query? > If it would be always the same query the cache of solr will come > and make the response time super small. Yes,

Re: Replacing text fields with numeric fields for speed

2010-07-23 Thread Peter Karich
Gora, just for my interests: does apache bench sends different queries, or from the logs, or always the same query? If it would be always the same query the cache of solr will come and make the response time super small. I would like to find a tool or script where I can send my logfile to solr an

Re: Replacing text fields with numeric fields for speed

2010-07-23 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:44:32 +0530 Gora Mohanty wrote: [...] > From some experiments, I see only a small difference between a > text search on a field, and a numeric search on the corresponding > numeric field. [...] Well, I take that back. Running more rigorous tests with Apache Bench shows a

Replacing text fields with numeric fields for speed

2010-07-23 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, One of the things that we were thinking of doing in order to speed up results from Solr search is to convert fixed-text fields (such as values from a drop-down) into numeric fields. The thinking behind this was that searching through numeric values would be faster than searching through text