On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Marc Sturlese <marc.sturl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > Hey there, > I have asked before about this two questions but got no response... I am > really interested in moving to distributed search so... hopefuly someone > can > give me a hand. > > 1.-In distributed search, Solr do a search per shard and get the score of > the documents based on the other docuements of that shard but... At the > time > of joining the results... could appear a problem with score? I am asking > this because of this article: > > http://wunderwood.org/most_casual_observer/2007/04/progressive_reranking.html > You may have gone through the DistributedSearch wiki page but if not, this is a good starting point. Interestingly, it references the same article you linked. There's no support for global IDF but this is not really a problem if you do random assignment to shards. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch Also look at SOLR-303 for the design decisions on this piece. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-303 > > 2.-Can someone explain me why facet dates are not suported? I have done > some > hacks to custom some parts of Solr (specialy in dataimporthandler) to my > use > case and would like to know why facet dates doesn't work in distributed? > Not too sure about this. I guess because nobody attempted it yet :) > > I have tried to find the answers by mysel but couln'd find so much info... > > Thanks in advance > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/distributed-search-doubts-tp21779840p21779840.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.