Question

I’m programming en ASP MVC3 application. One part of that application should be a product list containing faceted search, full text search and distance search. After a while of research I found SOLR and SOLRNet.
I have installed Solr on a Tomcat 7 and included a DataImportHandler for Indexing data from my MS SQL database.
Now I have a problem perhaps only an understanding problem:

1. The facets I want to use are placed in the database and could change
   every time. Where I have to implement the facet indexing? In the ASP MVC application or in the data-config of solr?

2. How does solr work in combination with solrnet, solr have to get a
   new index of my database for each search, correct?

3. How to make solr indexing the data from solrnet?

4. Have I to rebuild the index after every change?

A lot of questions and I would be happy if someone knows the answer of some of them.
Thank you very much and have a nice weekend!

Answer 1

The facets I want to use are placed in the database and could change every time. Where I have to implement the facet indexing? In the ASP MVC application or in the data-config of solr?

You mentioned you already set up DataImportHandler to index your data, so populating the index is just a matter of running a scheduled full-import or delta-import.

How does solr work in combination with solrnet, solr have to get a new index of my database for each search, correct?

No, you don’t need to recreate the index for every search.

How to make solr indexing the data from solrnet?

You mentioned you already set up DataImportHandler to index your data, that’s a valid approach to populate your index by having Solr pull data from the database. If you want to push data to your index using SolrNet instead, use the Add/AddRange methods.