On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 08:38 -0800, Marc Sturlese wrote: > Check out this patch witch solve the distributed IDF's problem: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1632 > I think it fixes what you are explaining. The price you pay is that there > are 2 requests per shard. If I am not worng the first is to get term > frequencies and needed info and the second one is the proper search request. > The patch also includes caching for terms in the first request. >
Nice! Thank you very much, Mark. Como van las cosas en Barcelona? salu2 > > Thorsten Scherler-3 wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have to do an analyses about following usecase. > > > > I am working as consultant in a public company. We are talking about to > > offer in the future each public institution its own search server > > (probably) based on Apache Solr. However the user of our portal should > > be able to search all indexes. > > > > The problematic part for our customer is that a meta search on various > > indexes which then later merges the response will change the scoring. > > > > Imagine you have the two indexes > > - public health department (A) > > - press relations department (B) > > > > Now you have 300 documents in A and only one in B about "influenza A". > > The B server will return the only document in its index with a very high > > score, since being the only one it gets a very high "base" score, > > correct? > > > > On the other hand A may have much more important documents but they will > > not get the same "base" score. > > > > Meaning on a merge most likely the document from Server B will be top of > > the list. > > > > To prevent this phenomenon we are looking into merging all the > > standalone indexes in on big index but that will lead us in other > > problems because it will become pretty big pretty fast. > > > > So here my questions: > > > > - What are other people doing to solve this problem? > > - What is the best way with Solr to solve the problem of the "base" > > scoring? > > - What is the best way to have multiple indexes in solr? > > - Is it possible to get rid of the "base" scoring in solr? > > > > TIA for any informations. > > > > salu2 > > -- > > Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> > > Open Source Java <consulting, training and solutions> > > > > Sociedad Andaluza para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad > > de la Información, S.A.U. (SADESI) > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Thorsten Scherler <thorsten.at.apache.org> Open Source Java <consulting, training and solutions> Sociedad Andaluza para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información, S.A.U. (SADESI)
