Do you search the frequently changing user-metadata? If not, maybe the external file field is helpful. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Working+with+External+Files+and+Processes
Regards, Alex. Personal: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ and @arafalov Solr resources and newsletter: http://www.solr-start.com/ and @solrstart Solr popularizers community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=6713853 On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Aurélien MAZOYER <aurelien.mazo...@francelabs.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have to index a dataset containing multipart documents. The "main" part > and the "user metadata" part have different update cycles : we want to > update the "user metadata part" frequently without having to refetch the > main part from the datasource nor storing every fields in order to use > atomic update. As there is no true field level update in Solr yet, I am > afraid that I have to build an index for both parts and to perform a query > time join, with all the well-known performance limitation. I have also heard > of side car index. Is it a solution that can meet my requirements? Is it > stable enough to be usable in production? Does the community plan to make it > part of the trunk code? > > Thanks, > > Aurelien >
