Hi, Without knowing the details, I'd say keep it in the same index if the additional information shares some/enough fields with the main product data and separately if it's sufficiently distinct (this also means 2 queries and manual merging/joining).
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Manepalli, Kalyan" <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 5:46:40 PM > Subject: large index vs multicore > > Hi All, > In my project, I have one primary core containing all the basic > information for a product. > Now I need to add additional information which will be searched and displayed > in > conjunction with the product results. > My question is - From design and query speed point of - should I add new core > to > handle the additional data or should I add the data to the existing core. > > The data size is not very large around 150,000 - 200,000 documents. > > Any insights into this will be helpful > > Thanks, > Kalyan Manepalli
