Hi, I’m new to the solr world, I’m in need of some experienced advice as I see I can do a lot of cool stuff with Solr, but I’m not sure which path to take so I don’t shoot myself in the foot with all this power :P
I have several tables (225) in my application, which I’d like to add into a single index (multiple type of documents in the same index with unique id) however, each table has a different number of columns, from 5 to 30 columns, do you recomend indexing each column separately or joining all columns into a single “big document”? I’m trying to provide my users with a simple experience where they type their search query in a simple search box and I list all the possible documents across different tables that match their query, not sure if that strategy is the best, or perhaps a core per table? So far these are my considered strategies: unique_id , table , megafield: All of the columns in the record get mixed into a single megafield and indexes (cons: no faceting?) a core per table: Each table gets a core, all the fields get indexed (except numbers and foreign keys), I’m not sure if having 200 cores will play nice with Solr Single core, all fields get indexed ( possible 1,000’s of columns), this sounds expensive and not so efficient to me My application has around 2M records Thanks in advance for any advise. Cheers
