Hi folks. I read some posts in the past about this subject but nothing that
definitively answer my question.
I am trying to understand the trade off when you use a large number of fields
(now sure what a quantative value of large is in Solr .. say 200 fields) versus
a join - and even a multi value join.
The reason being, I have a document that has a set of core fields and then a
load of metadata that is a repeating structure.
D1 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 ..... S1a S1b S1c S2a S2b S2c ....
I'm not sure whether to create a load of fields up to SNx and a single document
or to have multiple documents with each SNx in a separate document with a
parent id that points to a parent document (or a multivalue metadata pointer
field).
I hope that comes across reasonable well - please ask if not. Oh, if anyone
knows of any quantative studies in Solr fields/documents i'd love to see the
hard stats to improve my knowledge.
Loving Solr.
Cheers,/Steven
