you write: > Our overall response (front end + SOLR) averages 0.5s to 0.7s with > SOLR typicall taking about 100 - 300 ms.
is the 100-300ms the time your application needs to query solr and get the response? what are the times if you query SOLR directly without your frontend? we are also in the stage to replace our enterprise search for our intranet. one quick and dirty test with our intranet showed at about 480ms. to display the search page on our intranet site. index of at about 125.000 documents. the 480ms have to be compared to 315ms to display a simple html page in our intranet. direct query of solr is about 90mx. markus
