Hi List, we are running a marketplace which has about a comparable functionality like ebay (auctions, fixed-price items etc). The items are placed on the market by users who want to sell their goods.
Currently we are using Sphinx as an indexing engine, but, as Sphinx returns only document ids we have to make a database-query to fetch the data to display. This massively decreases performance as we have to do two requests to display data. I heard that Solr is able to return a complete dataset and we hope a switch to Solr can boost perfomance. A critical question is left and i was not able to find a solution for it in the docs: Is it possible to update attributes directly in the index? An example for better illustration: We have an index which holds all the auctions (containing auctionid, auction title) with its current prices(field: current_price). When a user places a new bid, is it possible to update the attribute 'current_price' directly in the index so that we can fetch the current_price from Solr and not from the database? I hope you understood my problem. It would be kind if someone can point me to the right direction. Thanks alot! Moritz
