Thank you Shawn, I will toy with these over the weekend. Solr/Hadoop/Hbase has been a nasty learning curve for me, It would probably would have been a lot easier if I didn't have 30 years of RDBMS stuck in my head.
Again, Many thanks for your response. On 13 May 2016 at 08:57, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 5/13/2016 6:48 AM, GW wrote: > > Let's say I have 10,000 documents and there is a field named "category" > and > > lets say there are 200 categories but I do not know what they are. > > > > My question: Is there a query/filter that can pull a list of distinct > > categories? > > Sounds like a job for faceting or grouping. Which one of them to use > will depend on exactly what you're trying to obtain in your results. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Faceting > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Result+Grouping > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
