I think the problem is that you have to interpret the user query (Solr has one syntax, other sources have a different one) and then combine results (how?). All of those are non-trivial.
Have you looked at something like http://www.comcepta.com/en/enterprise-metasearch.html which builds on top of Carrot, which integrates with Solr among other things. You can test their federated search at: http://www.etools.ch Regards, Alex. Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Oleg Ruchovets <oruchov...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > >
