Typical newspaper site with: news, jobs, homes, autos, classifieds, community-generated content, guestimate of .5 million documents
Do I really need to create a different solr index for each vertical? How ineffecient is it to add a few additional fields for each content type? Thinking of having a string field name "vertical" that would be used to segment by verticals above. My intuition is that most of the additional fields would be numbers: integers, prices, decimals. Thanks, Tim -- True innovation is not just about changing a product, a service or even a marketplace; its also about recognizing and relishing the need to change yourself.