Looking for expertise on comparing Solr search to Postgres full-text search

2022-03-04 Thread Bayer, Samuel
Hi all - In the interest of reducing my technology stack, I'm exploring whether using Postgres full-text search instead of Solr might be an option when I need both complex querying and full-text search. In my experience, so far, Postgres can't compare to Solr, but I'm trying to understand why,

Re: Looking for expertise on comparing Solr search to Postgres full-text search

2022-03-04 Thread Eric Pugh
In general when evaluating a new option for my search engine, I like to take a set of queries that represent my users, with some head, and some tail queries. Rate the results that you are getting, to get a concrete numbers on the quality of search. Then, take that rated “judgement set” and

How to get started with protwords.txt

2022-03-04 Thread Ryan W
I want to protect a word from stemming. I have added the word I want to protect /opt/solr/server/solr/configsets/sample_techproducts_configs/conf/protwords.txt I also reloaded my core. What else do I need to do? I am not really sure what makes solr respect one of these configsets. Do I need to

Re: How to get started with protwords.txt

2022-03-04 Thread Bharat Gulati
Since changing protwords.txt essentially changes the field analysis, reloading would not be sufficient in this case. You will need to reindex the documents for it to take effect. https://solr.apache.org/guide/8_11/reindexing.html#changing-field-analysis (I am assuming you made the changes to the "

Re: question on filesize limits for json

2022-03-04 Thread 6harat
Hi, I am not able to hit any limit in terms of uploading a 100MB file and was able to search the relevant fields inside the doc too. [image: image.png] I hope: 1. The json file that you are trying to upload has a root level key named "docs" 2. You are not trying to fetch the entire document when u

Re: question on filesize limits for json

2022-03-04 Thread Dan Armbrust
On 3/4/22 1:33 PM, 6harat wrote: Hi, I am not able to hit any limit in terms of uploading a 100MB file and was able to search the relevant fields inside the doc too. I hope: 1. The json file that you are trying to upload has a root level key named "docs" 2. You are not trying to fetch the ent

Re: question on filesize limits for json

2022-03-04 Thread Eric Pugh
I’d love to see some documentation improvements, please tag me for review. There is this document, but I don’t love it: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SOLR/HowToContribute So…. Let me try to describe how you would contribute a documentation fix! 1) Go ahead and fork the GitHub.com/

Re: Looking for expertise on comparing Solr search to Postgres full-text search

2022-03-04 Thread David Smiley
Hello Sam, You are a familiar name from my MITRE days :-) Check out Solr's feature list and see how it compares to that of Postgres. If you are only doing the most basic default relevancy ranked top-N search with default text analysis, then the tech/maintenance overhead might not be worth it. I'