Yes , it would be great to start discussion of this topic. I am looking a sort of kick start information to get start more detailed investigation. And of course may be someone already faced with this problem so please share your ideas and experience.
Thanks Oleg. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > We're not gonna have documentation to explain it. I guess it is more a > question of starting a discussion here about how to do it. > > My thought would be to write an adapter in front of your APIs to make it > look like a Solr instance, and fake distributed search. But, to get that > to work, you'd need to get scores to be roughly the same between Solr > and your API, which might be prohibitively difficult. > > Others might have alternative ideas. > > Upayavira > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013, at 04:37 PM, Oleg Ruchovets wrote: > > Ok , thank you for the answer. > > May be you can pointing me on documentation or any other source where can > > I > > get the Idea how to develop such extension. > > > > Thanks > > Oleg. > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Solr does not support federated search in the form you describe - that > > > is, to make a query to Solr which solr defers to another search system. > > > > > > There may be ways you could achieve it (Solr is pretty extensible) and > > > such a feature would be a very useful one, but it would take some, > > > likely significant, development effort. > > > > > > Upayavira > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Oleg Ruchovets wrote: > > > > Hi , > > > > > > > > I am very new to solr. > > > > We want to use solr search capabilities thru multiple data sources > > > > We have couple data sources in house and couple of data sources > > > > externally. > > > > We can index all in-house data using solr ,but we have only api > > > > access > > > > to external data sources ( we can not bring all the external data and > > > > index > > > > it in our solr environment). > > > > > > > > Question: > > > > Is it possible to use distributed / federated search in our > case? I > > > > mean what is the best practice to search thru multiple data sources. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Oleg. > > > >
