Hi, I am trying to implement a sort order for search results in Lucene 4.7.2.
If I want to use data for ordering that is not stored in Lucene as Fields, is there any way this can be done? Basically, I would have certain data that is associated logically to a document but stored elsewhere, like a DB. Can I create a Custom Sort function on the lines of a FieldComparator to sort based on this data by plugging it inside the sort function? I have tested the performance of the Sort function for String and numeric types, and as mentioned in some blog, it seems that the numeric type is much faster compared to the string type. However, if I sort on a number of fields from multiple clients, the memory footprint, due to the FieldCache.DEFAULT impl, increases approximately 5-6 times. If I run this on a machine which does not have this capacity, will I get a OOM or will there be intense thrashing for the memory? ----------------------- Thanks n Regards, Sandeep Ramesh Khanzode
