On Oct 29, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Ron Mayer wrote: > I have some documents with a bunch of attachments (images, thumbnails > for them, audio clips, word docs, etc); and am currently dealing with > them by just putting a path on a filesystem to them in solr; and then > jumping through hoops of keeping them in sync with solr. > > Would it be nuts to stick the image data itself in solr? > > More specifically - if I have a bunch of large stored fields, > would it significantly impact search performance in the > cases when those fields aren't fetched.
Make sure you have lazy field loading on. > > Searches are very common in this system, and it's very rare > that someone actually opens up one of these attachments > so I'm not really worried about the time it takes to fetch > them when someone does actually want one. > You would be adding some overhead to the system in that Solr now has to manage these files as stored fields. I guess I would do some benchmarking to see. -------------------------- Grant Ingersoll http://www.lucidimagination.com
