RE: Is there anything like MultiSearcher?

[Kai Gülzau <kg...@novomind.com>]

Hi Roman,

do you have solved your problem and how?

Regards,

Kai Gülzau

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Chyla [mailto:roman.chyla@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 4:50 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: Is there anything like MultiSearcher?
> 
> Dear Solr experts,
> 
> Could you recommend some strategies or perhaps tell me if I approach
> my problem from a wrong side? I was hoping to use MultiSearcher to
> search across multiple indexes in Solr, but there is no such a thing
> and MultiSearcher was removed according to this post:
> http://osdir.com/ml/solr-user.lucene.apache.org/2011-01/msg00250.html
> 
> I though I had two use cases:
> 
> 1. maintenance - I wanted to build two separate indexes, one for
> fulltext and one for metadata (the docs have the unique ids) -
> indexing them separately would make things much simpler
> 2. ability to switch indexes at search time (ie. for testing purposes
> - one fulltext index could be built by Solr standard mechanism, the
> other by a rather different process - independent instance of lucene)
> 
> I think the recommended approach is to use the Distributed search - I
> found a nice solution here:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2139030/search-multiple-sol
r-cores-and-return-one-result-set
> - however it seems to me, that data are sent over HTTP (5M from one
> core, and 5M from the other core being merged by the 3rd solr core?)
> and I would like to do it only for local indexes and without the
> network overhead.
> 
> Could you please shed some light if there already exist an optimal
> solution to my use cases? And if not, whether I could just try to
> build a new SolrQuerySearcher that is extending lucene MultiSearcher
> instead of IndexSearch - or you think there are some deeply rooted
> problems there and the MultiSearch-er cannot work inside Solr?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>   Roman
> 
>