On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Avlesh Singh<avl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using Solr 1.3 and have a few questions regarding DIH: > > 1. Can I pass parameters to DIH and be able to use them inside the > "query" attribute of an entity inside the data-config file? > 2. I am indexing some 2 million database records using DIH with 4-5 > nested entities (just one level). These subqueries are highly optimized > cannot be avoided. Since, DIH processes records sequentially, it takes a lot > of time (approximately 3 hours) to re-build the indexes. My question is - > Can I use DIH in someway so that indexing can be carried out in parallel? > 3. What happens if I "register" multiple DIH's (like dih1, dih2, dih3 > ...) with different data-config files inside the same core and run > full-import on each of them at the same time? Are the indexes created by > each of these (inside the same data directory) merged? yes it is possible to create muiltiple instances of DIH as you mentioned. The only drawback is it would result in multiple commits.
All the data will be written to the same index together > > Due to my lack of knowledge on Lucene/Solr internals, some of these > questions might be funny. > > Cheers > Avlesh > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
