Hi Solr experts, There is a huge difference doing facet sorting on lex vs count The strange thing is that count sorting is fast when setting a small limit. I realize I can do sorting in the client, but I am just curious why this is.
FAST - 16ms facet.field=city f.city.facet.limit=5000 f.city.facet.sort=lex FAST - 20 ms facet.field=city f.city.facet.limit=50 f.city.facet.sort=count SLOW - over 1 second facet.field=city f.city.facet.limit=5000 f.city.facet.sort=count Regards ericz