>I can't think of any value add in having Solr keep track of the fact that >"ds" means "Download Speed" vs having an external data mapping keep track >of that information, since direct access to that info inside of Solr >wouldn't typically make the performance of requests any faster or >reduce the size of the responses, it seems like the type of data that make >more senese to maintain externally.
I agree that it doesn't make solr requests any faster but it does cut down on the number of total requests. If solr tells me that for this doc 'ds' means 'Download Speed' (and it may be different for doc #2) then I don't have to worry about asking some other database. >if you can particion your index in this way, then similar metadata docs >might mke sense for you ... if you can't (becuase every doc turely is >differnet) then making the "real" documents also store the "metadata" >about field names can work just as well. I think what I may end up doing is having a 'fieldmap' field for every document and store the info there. Then I can pull that out at display time and rename all the fields accordingly. Thanks for the suggestions. - will
