Aditya, As suggested by others, definitely you should use the filter queries directly to query SOLR. Just keep your indexes updated. Keep all your fields indexed/stored as per your requirements. Refer through the filter query wiki
http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CommonQueryParameters> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters <http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SimpleFacetParameters> BTW, almost all the job sites out there (whether small/medium/big) use SOLR/lucene to power their searches :) Best Pravesh -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SOLR-guidance-required-tp4062188p4062422.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.