> I'm setting up my Solr index to be > updated every x minutes. > > Does Solr cache the result of a search, and then when next > time the same search is requested, it'd recognize that the > Index has not changed and therefore just return the previous > result from cache without processing the search again?
Yes. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCaching Also http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrAndHTTPCaches