Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-28 Thread Chris Hostetter
First off: it seems like you are massively missunderstanding the point of ExternalFileField ... the reason it only supports "float" as a base type is because it's purpose is to allow people to have an external file provide float values in ValueSource calculations (ie: you can have a popularity

RE: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-28 Thread Daniel Alheiros
d any information have a look at their web site or contact them. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: Jibo John [mailto:jiboj...@mac.com] Sent: 23 July 2009 18:44 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type Thanks for the quick res

Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
, NER, IR - Original Message > From: Jibo John > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 1:43:45 PM > Subject: Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type > > Thanks for the quick response, Otis. > > We have been able to ach

Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-23 Thread Jibo John
atext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR - Original Message From: Jibo John To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 12:08:26 PM Subject: Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type Thanks for the resp

Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-23 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
26 PM > Subject: Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type > > Thanks for the response, Eric. > > We have seen that size of the index has a direct impact on the search speed, > especially when the index size is in GBs, so trying all possible ways to keep > the inde

Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-23 Thread Jibo John
Thanks for the response, Eric. We have seen that size of the index has a direct impact on the search speed, especially when the index size is in GBs, so trying all possible ways to keep the index size as low as we can. We thought solr.ExternalFileField type would help to keep the index si

Re: Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-22 Thread Erick Erickson
Hoping the experts chime in if I'm wrong, but As far as I know, while storing a field increases the size of an index, it doesn't have much impact on the search speed. Which you could pretty easily test by creating the index both ways and firing off some timing queries and comparing. Althoug

Storing string field in solr.ExternalFieldFile type

2009-07-21 Thread Jibo John
We're in the process of building a log searcher application. In order to reduce the index size to improve the query performance, we're exploring the possibility of having: 1. One field for each log line with 'indexed=true & stored=false' that will be used for searching 2. Another field fo