February 9, 2009
Sorting, Faceting and Schema Design in Solr
I was recently with a client doing a Best Practices assesment when I came across a common source of confusion related to sorting, faceting and schema design.
As background, Solr provides a schema that describes the Fields and Field Types (FT) that are used by an application. Field Types describe how Solr should handle the information contained in a Field. For instance, the integer FT tells Solr to treat the contents of any…