When doing this use a filter to restrict the query results to just those for a users company. This will not affect the ranking then.
Mike www.ardentia.com the home of NetSearch -----Original Message----- From: Mufaddal Khumri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 March 2006 20:33 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Regarding Indexes The solution to your problem lies in answers to many business domain specific questions like: 1. Will each company only want to carry out searches on their data or on ALL the data? 2. If you do not know the answer to that, is there a chance that the some companies would want to search only their data and some others would want to search data from company a and company b? and yet another company would want to search all the data? 3. How does having just one index opposed to individual indexes affect indexing given the load that it will have to handle from one or more companies? [Note: you could also index data from a group of companies according to howmuch data on average they might have] 4. It might turn up that at this point you nor the companies might have no way of knowing howmuch data they will have, in that case you will have to use your best judgement in what path to take and build your app in an a way such that it can be abstracted from whether the index is being indexed in one index or in multiple indexes. Later you can toy around with different setups as you get more understanding on the usage of the application. One way is to index all the data from a particular company with one of the terms being "companyIdentifier" ... This way you will have the ability to search within a company d's data or within a few different company's data or the entire search index. -Mufaddal. -----Original Message----- From: Ravi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:22 AM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Regarding Indexes Hi Luceners, This is the my problem . Can any body give the solution for this one.. I am going to implement for the company which is going to Support ASP (Application Service Provider ) model. In this model , around 200 companies are going to register with us and add there documents and searches them . Now the problem is shall I maintain individual index files for each company or maintain single index file for all the companies. If I maintain individual index files then I need to create 200 searcher objects for them because. each index should be searched.. But if I maintain single index file , I can have one single index searcher but I need to add the condition for each document. And more over in feature if any body needed there own data we can not provide them .. so please tell me which model can help us to solve this problem.. the key point in this application is add/modify/delete will occur very frequently . Please help me .... I am waiting for your feed back Thanks Ravi Kumar Jaladanki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
