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On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > It all depends. I mean, if you have 20 million URLs averaging 40 > characters each, that's 80 MB, not a big deal at all, but if you have 20 > billion URLs that would take up 80 GB, which might be a big deal. But if > you shard those 20 billion documents into 10 shards, 8 GB may or may not be > a big deal, all depending on your hardware and expectations, not to mention > all the rest of the fields in your documents. > > Sure, a string longer than 4 characters takes up more space than an int. > Is that what you are asking?? > > But, generally, the ID should be a string - there are plenty of places in > Solr which only support string IDs. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Zahoor Mohamed > Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 4:51 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Size of ID field > > > Hi > > Does the size of ID field matter .. in terms of memory usage...and query > performance... > > i.e. will Solr use more memory if you use a URL string as ID field instead > of a int value? > > ./zahoor >
