I believe that's what's JSON facet API does by default. Have you tried that?
Regards, Alex. ---- Solr Example reading group is starting November 2016, join us at http://j.mp/SolrERG Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: http://www.solr-start.com/ On 5 November 2016 at 06:02, John Davis <johndavis925...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to improve the performance of queries with facets. I understand > that for queries with high facet cardinality and large number results the > current facet computation algorithms can be slow as they are trying to loop > across all docs and facet values. > > Does there exist an option to compute facets by just looking at the top-n > results instead of all of them or a sample of results based on some query > parameters? I couldn't find one and if it does not exist, has this come up > before? This would definitely not be a precise facet count but using > reasonable sampling algorithms we should be able to extrapolate well. > > Thank you in advance for any advice! > > John
