Exactly! Would love to get more feedback if you have a chance to try out ThriftDB (http://www.thriftdb.com http://www.thriftdb.com). We have a lot of experienc

Exactly! Would love to get more feedback if you have a chance to try out ThriftDB (http://www.thriftdb.com http://www.thriftdb.com). We have a lot of experience scaling faceted search with solr. 15M docs might not sound like a lot if you're doing full-text search but faceted-search adds another level of complexity: http://octopart.com/partsearch/#search/requestData&q=capacitor http://octopart.com/partsearch/#search/requestData&q=cap... As far as scaling goes, most of the demand right now is for smaller indexes so that's not a problem. We know how to scale out though so we're pretty excited to get customers with >100M docs. We're hosted on AWS but we're still iterating on the architecture. The indexes fit in RAM. Currently you can't control caches, tokenizers, stemming, etc. but that's in the pipeline. Good luck with your new Norwegian cannery owners! I hear you on hosted search. We're trying our best to create a headache-free hosted solution.