Solr 6.5 Features - Solr 'n Stuff

Solr 6.5 Features - Solr 'n Stuff

Field Type related changes

• PointFields (fixed-width multi-dimensional numeric & binary types enabling fast range search) are now supported
• In-place updates to numeric docValues fields (single valued, non-stored, non-indexed) supported using atomic update syntax
• A new LatLonPointSpatialField that uses points or doc values for query
• It is now possible to declare a field as "large" in order to bypass the document cache

Query

• New sow=false request param (split-on-whitespace) for edismax & standard query parsers enables query-time multi-term synonyms
• XML QueryParser (defType=xmlparser) now supports span queries

Highlighting

• hl.maxAnalyzedChars now have consistent default across highlighters
• UnifiedSolrHighlighter and PostingsSolrHighlighter now support CustomSeparatorBreakIterator

Streaming Expressions

• Scoring formula is adjusted for the scoreNodes function
• Calcite Planner now applies constant Reduction Rules to optimize plans
• A new significantTerms Streaming Expression that is able to extract the significant terms in an index
• StreamHandler is now able to use runtimeLib jars
• Arithmetic operations are added to the SelectStream

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