Difference between Solr Facet Fields and Filter Queries
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I am using SolrMeter to test Apache Solr search engine. The difference between Facet fields and Filter queries is not clear to me. SolrMeter tutorial lists this as an exapmle of Facet fields :

    content
    category
    fileExtension

and this as an example of Filter queries :

    category:animal
    
    category:vegetable
    categoty:vegetable price:[0 TO 10] 
    categoty:vegetable price:[10 TO *] 

I am having a hard time wrapping my head around it. Could somebody explain by example? Can i use SolrMeter without specifying either facets or filters?

Tags : Stress testing, Solrmeter, Solr
