Renaud, Can you provide a brief synopsis of how your system works?
Jason On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Renaud Delbru <renaud.del...@deri.org> wrote: > Hi, > > you might want to look at the SIREn plugin [1,2], which allows you to index > and query 1:N relationships such as yours, in a tabular data format [3]. > > [1] http://siren.sindice.com/ > [2] https://github.com/rdelbru/SIREn > [3] > https://dev.deri.ie/confluence/display/SIREn/Indexing+and+Searching+Tabular+Data > > Kind Regards, > -- > Renaud Delbru > > On 27/04/11 18:30, ronotica wrote: >> >> The nature of my project is such that search is needed and specifically >> search across related entities. We want to perform several queries >> involving >> a correlation between two or more properties of a given entity in a >> collection. >> >> To put things in context, here is a snippet of the domain: >> >> Student { firstname, lastname } >> Education { degreeCode, degreeYear, institution } >> >> The database tables look like so: >> >> STUDENT >> ---------- >> STUDENT_ID FNAME LNAME >> 100 John Doe >> 200 Rasheed Jones >> 300 Mary Hampton >> >> EDUCATION >> ------------- >> EDUCATION_ID DEGREE_CODE DEGREE_YR INSTITUTION >> STUDENT_ID >> 1 MD 2008 >> OHIO_ST 100 >> 2 PHD 2010 >> YALE >> 100 >> 3 MS 2007 >> OHIO_ST 200 >> 4 MD 2010 >> YALE >> 300 >> >> A student can have many educations. Currently, our documents look like >> this >> in solr: >> >> DOC_ID STUDENT_ID FNAME LNAME DEGREE_CODE DEGREE_YR >> INSTITUTION >> 100 100 John Doe MD PHD >> 2008 2010 OHIO_ST YALE >> 101 200 Rasheed Jones MS >> 2007 OHIO_ST >> 102 300 Mary Hampton MD >> 2010 YALE >> >> Searching for all students who graduated from OHIO_ST in 2010 currently >> gives a hit (John Doe) when it shouldn't. >> >> What is the best way to have overcome this issue in Solr? This is only >> happening when I am searching across correlated fields, mainly because the >> data has been denormalized and Lucene has no notion of relationships >> between >> the various fields. >> >> One way that as come to mind is to have separate documents for "education" >> and perform multiple searches to get at an answer. Besides this, is there >> any other way? Does Solr provide any elegant solution for this? >> >> Any help will be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks. >> >> PS: We have about 15 of these kind of relationships all relating to the >> student and will like to perform search on each of them. >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Search-across-related-correlated-multivalue-fields-in-Solr-tp2871176p2871176.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
