Hello Bram, make sure you checked the doc https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Pagination+of+Results
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Bram Van Dam <bram.van...@intix.eu> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > If I understand things correctly, you can use paging & sorting in a > SolrCloud environment. However, if I request the first 10 documents, a > distributed query will be launched to all shards requesting the top 10, and > then (Shards * 10) documents will then be sorted so that only the top 10 is > returned. > > This is fine. > > But I'm a little worried when going beyond the first page ... This becomes > (Page * shards * 10). I'm worried that in a 50 billion document setup > paging will just explode. > > Does anyone have any experience with paging on large cloud setups? > Positive or negative? Or can anyone offer some reassurances or words of > caution with this approach? > > Or should I tell my users that they can never go beyond Page X (which is > fine if the alternative is hell fire and brimstone). > > Thanks, > > - Bram > -- Sincerely yours Mikhail Khludnev Principal Engineer, Grid Dynamics <http://www.griddynamics.com> <mkhlud...@griddynamics.com>