Anything more than a few hundred seems very suspicious. Anything more than a few dozen or 50 or 75 seems suspicious as well.
The point should not be how crazy can you get with Solr, but that craziness should be avoided altogether! Solr's design is optimal for a large number of relatively small documents, not large documents. -- Jack Krupansky On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nothing's really changed in that area lately. Your co-worker is > perhaps confusing the statement that "Solr has no a-priori limit on > the number of distinct fields that can be in a corpus" with supporting > an infinite number of fields. Not having a built-in limit is much > different than supporting.... > > Whether Solr breaks with thousands and thousands of fields is pretty > dependent on what you _do_ with those fields. Simply doing keyword > searches isn't going to put the same memory pressure on as, say, > faceting on them all (even if in different queries). > > I'd really ask why so many fields are necessary though. > > Best, > Erick > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 6:18 AM, xavi jmlucjav <jmluc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > someone I work with has been advised that currently Solr can support > > 'infinite' number of fields. > > > > I thought there was a practical limitation of say thousands of fields > (for > > sure less than a million), or things can start to break (I think I > > remember seeings memory issues reported on the mailing list by several > > people). > > > > > > Was there any change I missed lately that makes having say 1M fields in > > Solr practical?? > > > > thanks >
