Collapsing is not that slow actually. With a high number of groups, you may just have to let group.ngroups set to false.
If you need to get the overall number of groups, you may have to patch lucene. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3972?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13709974#comment-13709974 Martijn patch for instance may work ok for your range of values. On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Alok Bhandari < alokomprakashbhand...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello , > I need some functionality for which I found that grouping is the most > suited > feature. I want to know about performance issue associated with it. On some > posts I found that performance is an bottleneck but want to know that if I > am having 3 million records with 0.5 million distinct values for > group.value then can I expect results to return in 2-3 seconds? the > grouping > field is an "int" , also I want only one filed for a document. I can afford > t use upto 4GB RAM. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-grouping-performace-tp4082480.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- ______________________________________________ Masurel Paul e-mail: paul.masu...@gmail.com