On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch > > joins aren't supported in distributed search. Any time you have more than > one shard in SolrCloud, you are, by definition, doing distributed search.
It is supported, but there is a limitation: You can use joins, but those joins will each be calculated locally per-shard based on common terms within the same shard. And you can ensure that certain sets of related documents appear on the same shard with the new document routing feature: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2592 -Yonik http://lucidworks.com
