Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread Tim TerlegÄrd
In our application we use dynamic fields and there can be about 50 of them and there can be up to 100 million documents. Are there any disadvantages having multivalued=true on all fields in the schema? An admin of the application can specify dynamic fields and if they should be indexed or stored.

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread kenf_nc
at runtime. Depending on your architecture, you don't really know what your document looks like until you have it in a result set. For what I'm doing, that isn't a problem. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Consequences-for-using-multivalued-on-all-fields-tp

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread J.J. Larrea
Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I am aware index format is identical in either case. One benefit of allowing one to specify a field as single-valued is similar to specifying that a field is required: Providing a safeguard that index data conforms to requirements. So maki

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread Geert-Jan Brits
You should be aware that the behavior of sorting on a multi-valued field is undefined. After all, which of the multiple values should be used for sorting? So if you need sorting on the field, you shouldn't make it multi-valued. Geert-Jan 2010/12/21 J.J. Larrea > Someone please correct me if I a

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-21 Thread Dennis Gearon
ge From: kenf_nc To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 6:07:51 AM Subject: Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields I have about 30 million documents and with the exception of the Unique ID, Type and a couple of date fields, every document is made of dynamic f

Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields

2010-12-22 Thread Erick Erickson
7; > > > EARTH has a Right To Life, > otherwise we all die. > > > > - Original Message > From: kenf_nc > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 6:07:51 AM > Subject: Re: Consequences for using multivalued on all fields > >