On 4/12/2012 7:27 AM, geeky2 wrote:
currently, my schema has individual fields to search on.
are there advantages or disadvantages to taking several of the individual
search fields and combining them in to a single search field?
would this affect search times, term tokenization or possibly other things.
example of individual fields
brand
category
partno
example of a single combined search field
part_info (would combine brand, category and partno)
You end up with one multivalued field, which means that you can only
have one analyzer chain. With separate fields, each field can be
analyzed differently. Also, if you are indexing and/or storing the
individual fields, you may have data duplication in your index, making
it larger and increasing your disk/RAM requirements. That field will
have a higher termcount than the individual fields, which means that
searches against it will naturally be just a little bit slower. Your
application will not have to do as much work to construct a query, though.
If you are already planning to use dismax/edismax, then you don't need
the overhead of a copyField. You can simply provide access to (e)dismax
search with the qf (and possibly pf) parameters predefined, or your
application can provide these parameters.
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax
Thanks,
Shawn
