Hi Alex, There is no build-in limit. The limit is going to be dictated by your hardware resources. In particular, this sounds like a memory intensive app because of sorting on lots of different fields. You didn't mention the size of your index, but that's a factor, too. Once in a while people on the list mention cases with lots and lots of fields, so I'd check ML archives.
Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: Alex Wang <aw...@crossview.com> > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 12:47:36 PM > Subject: Maximum number of fields allowed in a Solr document > > Hi, > > We are in the process of designing a Solr app where we might have > millions of documents and within each of the document, we might have > thousands of dynamic fields. These fields are small and only contain > an integer, which needs to be retrievable and sortable. > > My questions is: > > 1. Is there a limit on the number of fields allowed per document? > 2. What is the performance impact for such design? > 3. Has anyone done this before and is it a wise thing to do? > > Thanks, > > Alex
