: There will be a lot of data that will be indexed in Solr. My question is, : does caching help in my case? As the filter queries will vary for almost all : users ( because the viewport latitude/longitude would vary), in what ways : can I use Caching to increase performance. Should I completely turn off : caching?
you can use the "cache" localparam on your "fq" params to disable caching of those specific bbox filter queries w/o needing to completley disable caching. that way if you have any other filter queries that could leverage caching, or use faceting, etc...) thy can still take advantage of the caches... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters#Caching_of_filters -Hoss
