Hi folks,
if I'm seeing it right Solr currently does not provide any support for
federated / meta searching. Therefore, I'd like to know if anyone has
already put efforts into this direction? Moreover, is federated / meta
search considered a scenario Solr should be able to deal with at all or
is it (far) beyond the scope of Solr?
To be more precise, I'll give you a short explanation of my
requirements. Assume, there are a couple of Solr instances running at
different places. The documents stored within those instances are all
from the same domain (bibliographic records), but it can not be ensured
that the schema definitions conform to 100%. But lets say, there are at
least some index fields that are present in all instances (fields with
the same name and type definition). Now, I'd like to perform a search on
all instances at the same time (with the restriction that the query
contains only those fields that overlap among the different schemas) and
combine the results in a reasonable way by utilizing the score
information associated with each hit. Please note, that due to legal
issues it is not feasible to build a single index that integrates the
documents of all Solr instances under consideration.
Thanks in advance,
Sascha
