facets

Subfacets (also called Nested Facets) is a more generalized form of Solr’s current pivot faceting that allows adding additional facets for every bucket produced by a parent facet. Subfacet advantages over pivot faceting: Subfacets work with facet functions (statistics), enabling powerful real-time analytics Can add a subfacet to any facet […]

Solr Subfacets

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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 […]

Solr Facet Functions and Analytics

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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

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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

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Native code faceting for Solr has just been added to Heliosearch, and benchmarks show an impressive 2x performance increase! This is faceting code written in C++ and statically compiled for maximum performance, and loaded into the JVM via JNI (Java Native Interface). nCache, Heliosearch’s off-heap version of the Lucene/Solr FieldCache, […]

Native Code Faceting

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Lucene/Solr background Lucene has a segmented architecture – when a small amount of documents are added to an existing index, this will often just add an additional small segment to the index. Caching data structures at the segment level (e.g. field values used for sorting) is often desirable so that […]

Off-Heap FieldCache Faceting and Sorting

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Heliosearch’s off-heap FieldCache was previously introduced and benchmarked for integer fields. Support for all numeric field types as well as string fields has now been completed, and this post will focus on the performance of string fields. A review of nCache (n is for “native”) features and goals: nCache has […]

Heliosearch/Solr Off-Heap FieldCache Performance

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