Just an update on my own research: I have discovered the 'ParallelReader' class (subclass of IndexReader) in lucene, which is designed for searching across multiple indexes.
This appears to suit our needs - and I do not expect will be too difficult to integrate into Solr. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Vertical-Partitioning-advice-tp21906668p21926031.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.