A function query might fit your needs... you could move some or all of your external ranking system into Solr.
-Yonik On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Jim Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to store 100 million documents in our Solr instance and be able to > retrieve them with simple term queries - keyword matches. I'm NOT > implementing a search application where documents are scored and > ranked...they either match the keywords or not. Also, I have an external > ranking system that I need to use to filter and order the search results. > > My requirements are for the very fast and reliable retrieval so I'm trying > to figure a place to hook in or customize Solr/Lucene to just do the > simplest thing, reliably and fast. > > 1. A naive approach would be to implement a handler, let the query happen > normally then perform N lookups to my external scoring system then filter > and sort the documents. It seems I may be doing a lot of extra work that > way, especially with paging results and who knows what I'd doing to the > cache. > > 2. Create a custom FieldType that is virtual and calls out to my external > system? Then queries could be written to return all docs > my rank. > > 3. Implement custom Query, Weight, Scorer (et al) implementations to > minimize the "Search Stuff" and just delegate calls to my external ranking > system. > > 4. A filter of some kind? > > > I'd love to get a sanity check on any of these approaches or some > recommendations. > > Thanks > > Jim
