Hi all, We are using lucene to index our data and are maintaining millions of documents in sharded indices. Currently what we do is, reading each shard separately and collecting the TopDocs using TopDocCollector then sort them by the score and returning the Top scored Documents. I think using the MultiReader can replace this logic.
But I have some questions regarding sorting by a specific field/fields. 1. Does lucene sort at the search time or does it store sort information at the index time in some way? 2. How would I implement pagination for a sorted set of documents? I have several shards and each shard may contain millions of records.getting the first few pages, each page having 100 documents or so may be fine. But lets say I want to get the 1000th page. I have to sort the whole document sets of all the shards and get the 1000th page once all the documents are sorted. Does Lucene support pagination? Help is much appreciated. -- Gimantha Bandara Software Engineer WSO2. Inc : http://wso2.com Mobile : +94714961919
