As I'm using solr more and more, I'm finding that I need to do searches and then order by new criteria. So I am constantly add new fields into solr and then reindexing everything.
I want to know if adding in all this data into solr is the normal way to deal with sorting. I'm finding that I have almost a whole copy of my database in solr. Should I be pulling out all the data from solr and then sort in my database? This solution seems like it would take too long. Could/Should I just move to solr as my primary store so I can query directly against it without having to reindex all the time? Right now we store about 50 million docs, but the size is growing pretty fast and it is a pain to reindex everything everytime I add a new column to sort by.
