For capacity planning, our autocomplete gets more than 10X as many requests as our search. Solr can handle our search just fine, but I wrote an in-memory prefix match to handle the 25-30M autocomplete matches each day. I load that by doing Solr queries, so the two stay in sync.
wunder On 7/9/08 9:59 PM, "Chris Hostetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : Now I'd like to know what would be the best way to implement a search > : term autocompletion in the way of Google Suggest > : (http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en). > : > : Most autocomplete implementations aim to display search result entries > : during input. What Suggest does, and what I'd like to accomplish, is > : an automatic suggestion of relevant index terms. This would help users > > you'll find a few discussions about this in the archives... > > http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=14479&local=y&query=autocomplete > > It's not something i've personally built, but as I recal general concensus > in the past has been to use a custom index where each doc corrisponds to a > word/phrase you want to suggest. > > -Hoss
