https://wiki.apache.org/solr/FieldCollapsing

> On Mar 13, 2017, at 9:59 PM, Dave <hastings.recurs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps look into grouping on that field. 
> 
>> On Mar 13, 2017, at 9:08 PM, Scott Smith <ssm...@mainstreamdata.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm trying to solve a search problem and wondering if facets (or something 
>> else) might solve the problem.
>> 
>> Let's assume I have a bunch of documents (100 million+).  Each document has 
>> a category (keyword) assigned to it.  A single document my only have one 
>> category, but there may be multiple documents with the same category (1 to a 
>> few hundred documents may be in any one category).  There are several 
>> million categories.
>> 
>> Supposed I'm doing a search with a page size of 50.  What I want to do is do 
>> a search (e.g., "dog") and get back the top 50 documents that match the 
>> contain the word "dog" and are all in different categories.  So, there needs 
>> to be one document from 50 different categories.
>> 
>> If that's not possible, then is it possible to do it if I know the 50 
>> categories up-front and hand that off as part of the search (so "find 50 
>> documents that match the term 'dog' and there is one document from each of 
>> 50 specified categories").
>> 
>> Is there a way to do this?
>> 
>> I'm not extremely knowledgeable about facets, but thought that might be a 
>> solution.  But, it doesn't have to be facets.
>> 
>> Thanks for any help
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> 

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