I believe we use an in-process weakhashmap to store the id-name relationship. It's not that we're talking billions of values here. For anything more mem-intensive we use no-sql (tokyo tyrant through memcached protocol at the moment)
2010/7/24 Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> > > Perhaps completely unnessecery when you have a controlled domain, but I > > meant to use ids for places instead of names, because names will quickly > > become ambiguous, e.g.: there are numerous different places over the > world > > called washington, etc. > > This is related to something I've been thinking about. Okay, say you use > ID's instead of names. Now, you've got to translate those ID's to names > before you display them, of course. > > One way to do that would be to keep the id-to-name lookup in some non-solr > store (rdbms, or non-sql store) > > Is that what you'd do? Is there any non-crazy way to do that without an > external store, just with solr? Any way to do it with term payloads? > Anything else? > > Jonathan
