Hello, I have am somewhat of a novice when it comes to using SOLR in a distributed SolrCloud environment. My team and I are doing development work with a SOLR core. We will shortly be transitioning over to a SolrCloud environment.
My question specifically has to do with Facets in a SOLR cloud/collection (distributed environment). The core I am working with has a field "dataSourceName" defined as following in its schema.xml file. <field name="dataSourceName" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true"/> I am using the following facet query which works fine in more Core based index http://localhost:8983/solr/gamra/select?q=*:*&rows=0&facet=true&facet.field=dataSourceName It returns counts for each distinct dataSourceName as follows (which is the desired behavior). <lst name="facet_fields"> <lst name="dataSourceName"> <int name="DATA_SOURCE1">169</int> <int name=" DATA_SOURCE2">121</int> <int name=" DATA_SOURCE3">68</int> </lst> </lst> I am wondering if this should work fine in the SOLR Cloud as well? Will this method give me accurate counts out of the box in a SOLR Cloud configuration? Thanks -Andrew PS: The reason I ask is because I know there is some estimating performed in certain cases for the Facet "unique" function (as is outlined here: http://yonik.com/solr-count-distinct/ ). So I guess I am wondering why folks wouldn't just do what I have done vs going throught the trouble of using the unique(dataSourceName) function?
