Traditional faceted search (also called guided navigation) involves counting search results that belong to categories (also called facet constraints). The new facet functions in Solr extends normal faceting by allowing additional aggregations on document fields themselves. Combined with the new Sub-facet feature, this provides powerful new realtime analytics capabilities. Also […]
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Solr 5.1 has been released! Here’s an overview of how to use some of the new features. Also see Solr download links and upcoming features of the next Solr release. New Facet Module The new facet module has a native JSON Facet API, first-class support for statistics and analytics via […]
Solr 5.1 Features
The percentile aggregation function was just added to the new Solr Facet Module. This allows one to calculate one or more percentiles for each facet bucket (i.e. each group of documents produced by faceting), and even sort facet buckets by any given percentile. The percentile aggregation even works with distributed […]
Percentiles for Solr Faceting
Background I needed a really good hash function for the distributed indexing in SolrCloud. Since it is be used for partitioning documents, it needed to be really high quality (well distributed) since we don’t want uneven shards. It also needed to be cross-platform, so a client could calculate this hash […]