That's not really the case. Perhaps you're confusing group.ngroups and group.facet with just grouping?
See the ref guide: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Result+Grouping#ResultGrouping-DistributedResultGroupingCaveats Best, Erick On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Modassar Ather <modather1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As per my understanding, to group on a field all documents with the same > value in the field have to be in the same shard. > > Can we group by a field where the documents with the same value in that > field will be distributed across shards? > Please let me know what are the limitations, feature not available or > performance issues for such fields? > > Thanks, > Modassar