500K is definitely doable with good hardware, but it also depends on what your queries look like, how many fields you are faceting on, etc... look at your performance now to try and judge how much headroom you have.
-Yonik On 11/5/07, Tim Archambault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Typical newspaper site with: news, jobs, homes, autos, classifieds, > community-generated content, guestimate of .5 million documents > > Do I really need to create a different solr index for each vertical? How > ineffecient is it to add a few additional fields for each content type? > > Thinking of having a string field name "vertical" that would be used to > segment by verticals above. > > My intuition is that most of the additional fields would be numbers: > integers, prices, decimals. > > Thanks, > > Tim
