Re: Use of Solr as primary store for search engine

2012-07-07 Thread William Bell
For the search results we actually put the small amount of data in the core. Once someone clicks the results and we need to go to the item to display the detailed results, we create another core with a stored XML string field and an ID. The ID is indexable, and the string field is only stored. So

Re: Use of Solr as primary store for search engine

2012-07-05 Thread Sohail Aboobaker
In many e-commerce sites, most of data that we display (except images) especially in grids and lists is minimal. We were inclined to use Solr as data store for only displaying the information in grids. We stopped only due to non-availability of joins in Solr3.5. Since, our data (like any other rela

Re: Use of Solr as primary store for search engine

2012-07-04 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 7/4/2012 1:54 AM, Amit Nithian wrote: I am curious to know how people are using Solr in conjunction with other data stores when building search engines to power web sites (say an ecommerce site). The question I have for the group is given an architecture where the primary (transactional) data

Re: Use of Solr as primary store for search engine

2012-07-04 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Le 4 juil. 2012 à 21:17, Amit Nithian a écrit : > Thanks for your response! Were you using the SQL database as an object > store to pull XWiki objects or did you have to execute several queries > to reconstruct these objects? The first. It's all fairly transparent. There are "XWiki Classes" and X

Re: Use of Solr as primary store for search engine

2012-07-04 Thread Amit Nithian
Paul, Thanks for your response! Were you using the SQL database as an object store to pull XWiki objects or did you have to execute several queries to reconstruct these objects? I don't know much about them sorry.. Also for those responding, can you provide a few basic metrics for me? 1) Number of

Re: Use of Solr as primary store for search engine

2012-07-04 Thread Paul Libbrecht
Amit, not exactly a response to your question but doing this with a lucene index on i2geo.net has resulted in considerably performance boost (reading from stored-fields instead of reading from the xwiki objects which pull from the SQL database). However, it implied that we had to rewrite anythi

Use of Solr as primary store for search engine

2012-07-04 Thread Amit Nithian
Hello all, I am curious to know how people are using Solr in conjunction with other data stores when building search engines to power web sites (say an ecommerce site). The question I have for the group is given an architecture where the primary (transactional) data store is MySQL (Oracle, PostGre