JSON Facet API

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Introduction Facet Types Testing Using Curl Terms Facet Query Facet Range Facet Related page: Facet Functions Related page: Sub-Facets Introduction Heliosearch has a completely re-written faceted search module with a structured JSON API to control the faceting commands. The structured … Continued

Heliosearch/Solr Facet Functions and Analytics

Traditional faceted search (also called guided navigation) involves counting search results that belong to categories (also called facet constraints). The new facet functions in Heliosearch/Solr extends normal faceting by allowing additional aggregations on document fields themselves. Combined with the new … Continued

Native Code Faceting

Native code faceting for Solr has just been added to Heliosearch, and benchmarks show an impressive 2x performance increase! This is faceting code written in C++ and statically compiled for maximum performance, and loaded into the JVM via JNI (Java … Continued

Solr Faceted Search Performance Improvements

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Having performance issues with Solr’s faceted search and certain types of fields?  Help has arrived in the form of a new Solr faceting algorithm!  This new faceting implementation dramatically improves the performance of faceted search, making it suitable for a … Continued