: Has anyone ever had to create large mock/dummy datasets for test : environments or for POCs/Demos to convince folks that Solr was the : wave of the future? Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I suppose : it sounds a lot like crawling even though it started out as innocent : DIH usage.
the better question to ask is where you can find good sample data sets for building proof of concept implementations. If you want an example of product data, the best buy product catalog is available for developers using either an API or a bulk download of xml files... http://bbyopen.com/ ...last time i looked (~1 year ago) there were about 1 million products in the data dump. -Hoss