diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/facet/FacetField.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/facet/FacetField.java
index 728cd6ea9660..f5fdf3eaff37 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/facet/FacetField.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/facet/FacetField.java
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ public enum FacetMethod {
     DV,  // DocValues, collect into ordinal array
     UIF, // UnInvertedField, collect into ordinal array
     DVHASH, // DocValues, collect into hash
+    DVSTRING, // DocValues, collect into hash, for non-numeric single or multi-valued fields
     ENUM, // TermsEnum then intersect DocSet (stream-able)
     STREAM, // presently equivalent to ENUM
     SMART,
@@ -58,6 +59,7 @@ public static FacetMethod fromString(String method) {
         case "dv": return DV;
         case "uif": return UIF;
         case "dvhash": return DVHASH;
+        case "dvstring": return DVSTRING;
         case "enum": return ENUM;
         case "stream": return STREAM; // TODO replace with enum?
         case "smart": return SMART;
@@ -116,6 +118,14 @@ public FacetProcessor createFacetProcessor(FacetContext fcontext) {
       return new FacetFieldProcessorByEnumTermsStream(fcontext, this, sf);
     }
 
+    if (method == FacetMethod.DVSTRING) {
+      if (ntype != null) {
+        throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.SERVER_ERROR,
+            "Method " + method + " cannot support numeric-type field " + field);
+      }
+      return new FacetFieldProcessorByHashDVString(fcontext, this, sf);
+    }
+
     // TODO if method=UIF and not single-valued numerics then simply choose that now? TODO add FieldType.getDocValuesType()
 
     if (!multiToken) {
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/facet/FacetFieldProcessorByHashDVString.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/facet/FacetFieldProcessorByHashDVString.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1d9996fe252b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/search/facet/FacetFieldProcessorByHashDVString.java
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.solr.search.facet;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.function.IntFunction;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.DocValues;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.DocValuesType;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfo;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.LeafReaderContext;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.SortedDocValues;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.SortedSetDocValues;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreMode;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.SimpleCollector;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.BitUtil;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
+import org.apache.solr.common.util.SimpleOrderedMap;
+import org.apache.solr.schema.SchemaField;
+import org.apache.solr.search.DocSetUtil;
+import org.apache.solr.search.facet.SlotAcc.CountSlotAcc;
+import org.apache.solr.search.facet.SlotAcc.SlotContext;
+
+/**
+ * Facets DocValues into a HashMap using the BytesRef as key.
+ * Limitations:
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>Only for string type fields not numerics (use dvhash for those)</li>
+ * </ul>
+ */
+class FacetFieldProcessorByHashDVString extends FacetFieldProcessor {
+
+  static class TermData {
+    int count;
+    int slotIndex;
+  }
+
+  // Using a regular HashMap hence slots get created dynamically as new keys are found from docvalues
+  private HashMap<BytesRef, TermData> table;
+  private ArrayList<BytesRef> slotList; // position in List is the slot number, value is key for table
+  private int capacity; // how many slots we will need for accs, gets resized later if needed
+
+  FacetFieldProcessorByHashDVString(FacetContext fcontext, FacetField freq, SchemaField sf) {
+    super(fcontext, freq, sf);
+    if (freq.mincount == 0) {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,
+          getClass()+" doesn't support mincount=0");
+    }
+    if (freq.prefix != null) {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,
+          getClass()+" doesn't support prefix"); // yet, but it could
+    }
+    FieldInfo fieldInfo = fcontext.searcher.getSlowAtomicReader().getFieldInfos().fieldInfo(sf.getName());
+    if (fieldInfo != null &&
+        fieldInfo.getDocValuesType() != DocValuesType.SORTED &&
+        fieldInfo.getDocValuesType() != DocValuesType.SORTED_SET) {
+      throw new SolrException(SolrException.ErrorCode.BAD_REQUEST,
+          getClass()+" only supports string with docValues");
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void process() throws IOException {
+    super.process();
+    response = calcFacets();
+    table = null;//gc
+    slotList = null;
+  }
+
+  private SimpleOrderedMap<Object> calcFacets() throws IOException {
+
+    int possibleValues = fcontext.base.size();
+    int hashSize = BitUtil.nextHighestPowerOfTwo((int) (possibleValues * (1 / 0.7) + 1));
+    hashSize = Math.min(hashSize, 1024);
+
+    table = new HashMap<>(hashSize);
+    slotList = new ArrayList<>();
+
+    // The initial value of capacity. Note that slot capacity and resizing only does anything
+    // if you're using allBuckets:true or sorting by a stat, otherwise it's a no-op.
+    capacity = Math.max(128, possibleValues / 10);
+
+    createCollectAcc();
+
+    collectDocs();
+
+    return super.findTopSlots(table.size(), table.size(),
+        slotNum -> slotList.get(slotNum).utf8ToString(), // getBucketValFromSlotNum
+        val -> val.toString()); // getFieldQueryVal
+  }
+
+  private void createCollectAcc() throws IOException {
+
+    // This only gets used for sorting so doesn't need to collect, just implements compare
+    indexOrderAcc = new SlotAcc(fcontext) {
+      @Override
+      public void collect(int doc, int slot, IntFunction<SlotContext> slotContext) throws IOException {
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public int compare(int slotA, int slotB) {
+        return slotList.get(slotA).compareTo(slotList.get(slotB));
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Object getValue(int slotNum) throws IOException {
+        return null;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void reset() {
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void resize(Resizer resizer) {
+      }
+    };
+
+    // This implementation never needs to collect docs, it only gets used to report count per-slot
+    // for the response, and if used for sorting by count, both of which it can do by using the table
+    countAcc = new CountSlotAcc(fcontext) {
+      @Override
+      public void incrementCount(int slot, int count) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public int getCount(int slot) {
+        return table.get(slotList.get(slot)).count;
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public Object getValue(int slotNum) {
+        return getCount(slotNum);
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void reset() {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void collect(int doc, int slot, IntFunction<SlotContext> slotContext) throws IOException {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public int compare(int slotA, int slotB) {
+        return Integer.compare( getCount(slotA), getCount(slotB) );
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public void resize(Resizer resizer) {
+        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+      }
+    };
+
+    // we set the countAcc & indexAcc first so generic ones won't be created for us.
+    // adding 1 extra slot for allBuckets, which always goes on the end
+    super.createCollectAcc(fcontext.base.size(), capacity + 1);
+
+    if (freq.allBuckets) {
+      allBucketsAcc = new SpecialSlotAcc(fcontext, collectAcc, capacity, otherAccs, 0);
+    }
+  }
+
+  private void collectDocs() throws IOException {
+
+    if (sf.multiValued()) {
+      DocSetUtil.collectSortedDocSet(fcontext.base, fcontext.searcher.getIndexReader(), new SimpleCollector() {
+        SortedSetDocValues values = null;
+        HashMap<Long, BytesRef> segOrdinalValueCache; // avoid repeated lookups of the same ordinal, in this seg
+
+        @Override
+        protected void doSetNextReader(LeafReaderContext ctx) throws IOException {
+          setNextReaderFirstPhase(ctx);
+          values = DocValues.getSortedSet(ctx.reader(), sf.getName());
+          segOrdinalValueCache = new HashMap<>((int)values.getValueCount());
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void collect(int segDoc) throws IOException {
+          if (values.advanceExact(segDoc)) {
+            // TODO not fully clear if values.nextOrd may return duplicates or not (if a doc has the same value twice)
+            long previousOrdinal = -1L;
+            long ordinal;
+            while ((ordinal = values.nextOrd()) != SortedSetDocValues.NO_MORE_ORDS) {
+              if (ordinal != previousOrdinal) {
+                BytesRef docValue = segOrdinalValueCache.get(ordinal);
+                if (docValue == null) {
+                  docValue = BytesRef.deepCopyOf(values.lookupOrd(ordinal));
+                  segOrdinalValueCache.put(ordinal, docValue);
+                }
+                collectValFirstPhase(segDoc, docValue);
+              }
+              previousOrdinal = ordinal;
+            }
+          }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public ScoreMode scoreMode() {
+          return ScoreMode.COMPLETE_NO_SCORES;
+        }
+      });
+
+    } else {
+      DocSetUtil.collectSortedDocSet(fcontext.base, fcontext.searcher.getIndexReader(), new SimpleCollector() {
+        SortedDocValues values = null;
+        HashMap<Integer, BytesRef> segOrdinalValueCache; // avoid repeated lookups of the same ordinal, in this seg
+
+        @Override
+        protected void doSetNextReader(LeafReaderContext ctx) throws IOException {
+          setNextReaderFirstPhase(ctx);
+          values = DocValues.getSorted(ctx.reader(), sf.getName());
+          segOrdinalValueCache = new HashMap<>(values.getValueCount());
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void collect(int segDoc) throws IOException {
+          if (values.advanceExact(segDoc)) {
+            int docOrdinal = values.ordValue();
+            BytesRef docValue = segOrdinalValueCache.get(docOrdinal);
+            if (docValue == null) {
+              docValue = BytesRef.deepCopyOf(values.binaryValue());
+              segOrdinalValueCache.put(docOrdinal, docValue);
+            }
+            collectValFirstPhase(segDoc, docValue);
+          }
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public ScoreMode scoreMode() {
+          return ScoreMode.COMPLETE_NO_SCORES;
+        }
+      });
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  private void collectValFirstPhase(int segDoc, BytesRef val) throws IOException {
+    TermData termData = table.get(val);
+    if (termData == null) {
+      termData = new TermData();
+      termData.slotIndex = slotList.size(); // next position in the list
+      table.put(val, termData);
+      slotList.add(val);
+      if (termData.slotIndex >= capacity) {
+        resizeAccumulators();
+      }
+    }
+    termData.count++;
+
+    super.collectFirstPhase(segDoc, termData.slotIndex, slotNum -> {
+        return new SlotContext(sf.getType().getFieldQuery(null, sf, val.utf8ToString()));
+      });
+  }
+
+  private void resizeAccumulators() {
+    // Our countAcc does not need resizing as it's backed by the table
+
+    if (collectAcc == null && allBucketsAcc == null) {
+      return;
+    }
+
+    final int oldAllBucketsSlot = capacity;
+    capacity *= 2;
+
+    SlotAcc.Resizer resizer = new SlotAcc.Resizer() {
+      @Override
+      public int getNewSize() {
+        return capacity + 1; // extra slot for allBuckets
+      }
+
+      @Override
+      public int getNewSlot(int oldSlot) {
+        if (oldSlot == oldAllBucketsSlot) {
+          return capacity;
+        }
+        return oldSlot;
+      }
+    };
+
+    if (collectAcc != null) {
+      collectAcc.resize(resizer);
+    }
+    if (allBucketsAcc != null) {
+      allBucketsAcc.resize(resizer);
+    }
+  }
+}