I'd be curious about this, too! I suspect the answer is: not doable, patches welcome. :) But I'd love to be wrong!
Otis ---- Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - http://sematext.com/spm >________________________________ > From: Yuval Dotan <yuvaldo...@gmail.com> >To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> >Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:43 AM >Subject: Question about sampling > >Hi Guys >We have an environment containing billions of documents. >Faceting over this large result set could take many seconds, and so we >thought we might be able to use statistical sampling of a smaller result >set from the facet, and give an approximate result much quicker. >Is there any way to facet only a random sample of the results? >Thanks >Yuval > > >
