Hello, We have a use case of a very large index (slave-master; for unrelated reasons the search cannot work in the cloud mode) - one of the fields is a very large text, stored mostly for highlighting. To cut down the index size (for purposes of replication/scaling) I thought I could try to save it in a database - and not in the index.
Lucene has codecs - one of the methods is for 'stored field', so that seems likes a natural path for me. However, I'd expect somebody else before had a similar problem. I googled and couldn't find any solutions. Using the codecs seems really good thing for this particular problem, am I missing something? Is there a better way to cut down on index size? (besides solr cloud/sharding, compression) Thank you, Roman