On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:21 PM, sivaram <yogendra.bopp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I searched for this but couldn't find a convincing answer. > I'm planning to use Lucene/Solr in a tool for indexing and searching > documents. I'm thinking of if I use Lucene directly instead of Solr, will it > improves the performance of the search?(in terms of time taken for indexing > or returning search results or if Solr slows down my application when > compared to Lucene). I have worked with Solr in small scale before but this > time I have to use for an index with over a million docs to get indexed and > searched.
On a small scale (hundreds of docs or so), Solr's overhead (parsing parameters, etc) could matter. When you scale up to larger indexes, it's in the noise (i.e. the actual computation of searching, faceting, highlighting, etc, dominate). -Yonik http://lucidimagination.com
