Are they expecting relevancy ranking or merely seeking to a bulk read of
those documents? Please detail what the user is trying to accomplish with
such a monster list of IDs.
Generally, queries of more than a few dozen terms are a bad idea. If for no
other reason than that if you need to debug them or examine the results by
hand, it will be a nightmare. OTOH, some people really love drama and just
can't get enough of it.
The general guidance is to keep requests and responses relatively small.
Keep network traffic down. Keep compute intensity down. Keep memory
requirements down.
Small is better.
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Gresock
Sent: Monday, June 9, 2014 8:50 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Large disjunction query practices
I'm wondering what the best practice for large disjunct queries in Solr is.
A user wants to submit a query for several hundred thousand terms, like:
(term1 OR term2 OR ... term500,000)
I know it might be better to break this up into multiple queries that can
be merged on the user's end, but I'm wondering if there's guidance for a
good limit of OR'ed terms per query. 100 terms? 200? 500? Any idea what
kinds of data set or memory limitations might govern this threshold?
Thanks,
Joe
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