On 2/19/2013 6:47 PM, Erick Erickson wrote:
It Depends (tm). Storing data in a Solr index pretty much just consumes disk space, the *.fdt and *.fdx files aren't really germane to the amount of memory needed for search. There will be some additional memory requirements for the document cache though. And you'll also have resources consumed if you use the &fl=*, there's more disk seeking going on to fetch the fields.
Does the new compressed stored field format in Solr 4.1 do anything to reduce the number of disk seeks required to retrieve all document fields?
Thanks, Shawn
