Re: Recap on derived objects in Solr Index, 'schema in a can'

2010-12-22 Thread Erick Erickson
No, one cannot ignore the schema. If you try to add a field not in the schema you get an error. One could, however, use any arbitrary subset of the fields defined in the schema for any particular #document# in the index. Say your schema had fields f1, f2, f3...f10. You could have fields f1-f5 in

Re: Recap on derived objects in Solr Index, 'schema in a can'

2010-12-22 Thread Dennis Gearon
I'm open to cores, if it's the faster(indexing/querying/keeping mentally straight) way to do things. But from what you say below, the eventual goal of the site would mean either 100 extra 'generic' fields, or 1,000-100,000's of cores. Probably cores is easier to administer for security and

Re: Recap on derived objects in Solr Index, 'schema in a can'

2010-12-22 Thread Lance Norskog
A dynamic field just means that the schema allows any field with a name matching the wildcard. That's all. There is no support for referring to all of the existing fields in the wildcard. That is, there is no support for *_en:word as a field search. Nor is there any kind of grouping for facets.

Re: Recap on derived objects in Solr Index, 'schema in a can'

2010-12-22 Thread Dennis Gearon
I think I'm just going to have to have my partner and I play with both cores and dynamic fields. If multiple cores are queried, and the schemas match up in order and postion for the base fields, the 'extra' fields in the different cores just show up in the result set with their field names?

Recap on derived objects in Solr Index, 'schema in a can'

2010-12-20 Thread Dennis Gearon
Based on more searches and manual consolidation, I've put together some of the ideas for this already suggested in a summary below. The last item in the summary seems to be interesting, low technical cost way of doing it. Basically, it treats the index like a 'BigTable', a la No SQL. Erick