Solr itself has an internal limit to the number of results you can return on a single page (I think it is 1000) and AFAIK always returns a paged result. For speed and memory usage over large result sets it would probably be most efficient to build in paging logic.

> On Aug 31, 2016, at 10:45 PM, Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> On a related note, do any of the libraries allow the user to iterate over a large result set without having to be aware of repeated calls, incrementing the start parameter, and that sort of bookkeeping?
> 
> It seems like someone must have built an iterator to hide that when you're trying to sift through a large number of hits.
> 
> -Tod
> 
>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 4:09 PM, Rhoads, Joseph <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>> I've used several of these.  I like the interface of mysolr but (as
>> mentioned) it hasn't been updated in a while.
>> 
>> pysolr is fairly up to date (v3.5 came out in May this year), and is used
>> in django-haystack for the solr backend.
>> https://github.com/django-haystack/pysolr
>> 
>> Haystack itself is great if you want an ORM-like interface for solr and use
>> django.
>> https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack
>> 
>> -Joseph
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Chris Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I haven't done much of that but you can submit documents via the API and
>>> have them indexed (and processed by Tika).  Once you understand how to do
>>> that, you might find that you can do everything you want to do.
>>> 
>>> An alternative would be reading the source of one of those libraries.  In
>>> the list you referenced, the only mention of inserting documents was for
>>> sunburnt.  I would be inclined to look there first, especially since it
>>> mentions a pythonic interface to Solr.
>>> 
>>> A good, and amusing, cautionary tale about overwritten Python libraries is
>>> at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0.
>>> 
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 2016-08-31 03:28 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 31, 2016, at 3:25 PM, Chris Gray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Okay, there are SO many Python libraries [1] for Solr, and I’d like to
>>>>>> know which one is the most popular (not necessarily the “best”).
>>>>> What do you want to do with it?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I didn't feel the need to even look for a Python library for my needs.
>>>>> I use Python to submit searches to the Solr web API and consume the results
>>>>> as JSON.
>>>> 
>>>> Good question. I want to add documents to a Solr index, and I want to
>>>> query the same index. Hmmm… —Eric M.
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