BB, Dismax could be slower than standard, depending on what kinds of queries you throw at either handler. "Millions of docs" is a bit imprecise (2M or 22M or 222M or 999M, tweet-sized docs or book sized docs....), but given adequate hardware and proper treatment shouldn't be a problem. Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/
----- Original Message ---- > From: bbarani <bbar...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tue, June 22, 2010 2:27:05 PM > Subject: Performance related question on DISMAX handler.. > > Hi, I just want to know if there will be any overhead / performance > degradation if I use the Dismax search handler instead of standard search > handler? We are planning to index millions of documents and not sure if > using Dismax will slow down the search performance. Would be great if someone > can share their thoughts. Thanks, BB -- View this message in > context: > href="http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Performance-related-question-on-DISMAX-handler-tp914892p914892.html" > > target=_blank > >http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Performance-related-question-on-DISMAX-handler-tp914892p914892.html Sent > from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.