On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, bharath venkatesh < bharath.venkat...@ibibogroup.com> wrote:
> Hi , > Is there any limit in no of values stored in a single multi valued > string field ? There is no limit theoretical limit. There are practical limits because your documents are heavier. The document cache stores lucene documents in memory. > if a single multi valued string field contains 1000-2000 string values what > will be effect on query performance (we will be only indexing this field not > storing it ) ? Yes, the more the number of tokens, the longer it may take to search across them. Faceting performance can drop drastically for such large number of values. > is it better to store all the strings in a single text field instead of > multi valued string field. > > It wouldn't make a lot of difference. The XML response may be a bit shorter. In a single field highlighting can cause adjacent terms to be highlighted which you may not want. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
