Take a look at the clustering component http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ClusteringComponent
Consider clustering off line and indexing the pre calculated group memberships I might be wrong but I don't think their is any faceting mileage here. Depending upon the use case you might get some use out of the mlt handler http://wiki.apache.org/solr/MoreLikeThis On 22 May 2012 18:00, Robby <java....@phi-integration.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm quite a new user both to Lucene / Solr. I want to ask if faceted search > can be used to do a grouping for multiple field's value based on similarity > ? I have look at the faceted index so far, but from my understanding they > only works on exact single and definite range values. > > For example, if I have name, address, id number and nationality. And with > rows that had a degree of similarity distance between these fields we will > group them together. > > Sample results will be like this : > ============================ > Group1 > Name : Angel, Address: Jakarta, ID : 123, Nationality: Indonesian > Name : Angeline, Address: Jayakarta, ID : 123, Nationality: Indonesian > > Group2 > Name : Frank, Address: Jl. Tubagus Angke Jakarta, ID : 333, > Nationality: Indonesian > Name : Frans, Address: Jl. T. Angke Jakarta, ID : 332, Nationality: > Indonesian > ============================ > > Hope I make myself clear and asking in proper way. Very sorry if my English > is not good enough... > > Thanks, > > Robby
