On Mar 23, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On 2010-03-23 06:25, David Smiley @MITRE.org wrote: >> >> I use Endeca and Solr. >> >> A few notable things in Endeca but not in Solr: >> 1. Real-time search. > > >> 2. "related record navigation" (RRN) is what they call it. This is the >> ability to join in other records, something Lucene/Solr definitely can't do. > > Could you perhaps elaborate a bit on this functionality? Your description > sounds intriguing - it reminds me of ParallelReader, but I'm probably > completely wrong ... >
AIUI, it just allows you to do joins like in a db. So, given a music band, get related things like band members, albums, etc. You can do this in Lucene with some work by leveraging Field Cache, but it gets tricky in light of freq. updates.
