You want just the usual join (not the block-join). That's the way it was before nested documents became supported. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Other+Parsers#OtherParsers-JoinQueryParser
Also, Elasticsearch - as far as I remember - stores the original document structure (including children) as a special field and then flattens all the children into parallel fields within parent. Which causes interesting hidden ranking issues, but that's an issue for a different day. Rgards, 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 17 November 2016 at 18:08, Dorian Hoxha <dorian.ho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not finding a way to support parent-child like es does (using > blockjoin)? I've seen some blogs > <http://www.slideshare.net/anshumg/working-with-deeply-nested-documents-in-apache-solr> > with having children as nested inside the parent-document, but I want to > freely crud childs/parents as separate documents (i know that nested also > writes separate documents) and have a special field to link them + manually > route them to the same shard. > > Is this possible/available ? > > Thank You