Look at solr-2272. It might help in your situation. you can have a separate core & join using the document unique id.
This way in the separate core you can just have the document id & the view stats & you can just keep updating those 2 fields alone instead of the entire document. -- karthik On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Adam Duston <adus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Erick, > > Thanks for your message. > > > What is the use-case you're considering? > > The use case is actually quite similar to the one in the blog post. We > have view counts for Videos in our mysql database. We want to be able > to find "most viewed videos" that match certain search criteria. So, > for example, videos that contain a particular word and were also > viewed the greatest number of times. > > We keep track of the view statistics in real-time using Redis, and > then we dump the view stats into mysql once every 2 hours. It takes a > while to update the solr search index, so we don't want to update the > entire index once every 2 hours. > > > with the integer field. If you just want to influence the > > score, then just plain external field fields should work for > > you. > > Is this an appropriate solution, give our use case? > > Thank you again, > Adam > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Nope, there isn't a way to index a single field, it's always > > the entire document. > > > > That said, the URL you pointed to is very interesting, but > > it may be overkill depending upon what you want to do > > with the integer field. If you just want to influence the > > score, then just plain external field fields should work for > > you. > > > > What is the use-case you're considering? > > > > Best > > Erick > > > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Adam Duston <adus...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We are updating one indexed integer field in Solr for all documents > >> once every two hours. We're using Solr through Haystack so we're not > >> exactly Solr experts. Is there a way to update just one indexed field > >> for all documents without reindexing all other fields also? We saw > >> this blog post [1], which appears to be one solution. > >> > >> Adam > >> > >> [1] > http://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2011/05/custom-sorting-in-solr-using-external.html > >> > >> -- > >> adus...@gmail.com > >> 312-375-9879 > >> Skype: aduston > >> > > > > > > -- > adus...@gmail.com > 312-375-9879 > Skype: aduston >
