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David Smiley commented on SOLR-13101:
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I would like to close this issue as won't-fix because the substance and feature 
branch (with linked PRs) pointing to this issue is dead-in-the-water (will not 
be merged, or further publicly contributed to).  However the issue title, 
"Shared storage support" (rather general) is not a "won't-fix" !  So with that, 
I propose I re-title the issue to "Shared storage via new SHARED replica type" 
because in my mind, that's the most stand-out aspect of this PR compared to 
other alternatives.  WDYT [~ilan]?

That said, do not lose hope for a solution to come into being!  I've been 
excitedly working on a new plan I've been internally sharing that solves the 
contribut-ability matters that the SHARED replica type implementation lacks.  
If things go well in the coming weeks... there will end up being a new Jira 
issue to be called "BlobDirectory, a shared storage approach" that will link 
here.

> Shared storage support in SolrCloud
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-13101
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-13101
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: SolrCloud
>            Reporter: Yonik Seeley
>            Priority: Major
>          Time Spent: 15h 50m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> Solr should have first-class support for shared storage (blob/object stores 
> like S3, google cloud storage, etc. and shared filesystems like HDFS, NFS, 
> etc).
> The key component will likely be a new replica type for shared storage.  It 
> would have many of the benefits of the current "pull" replicas (not indexing 
> on all replicas, all shards identical with no shards getting out-of-sync, 
> etc), but would have additional benefits:
>  - Any shard could become leader (the blob store always has the index)
>  - Better elasticity scaling down
>    - durability not linked to number of replcias.. a single replica could be 
> common for write workloads
>    - could drop to 0 replicas for a shard when not needed (blob store always 
> has index)
>  - Allow for higher performance write workloads by skipping the transaction 
> log
>    - don't pay for what you don't need
>    - a commit will be necessary to flush to stable storage (blob store)
>  - A lot of the complexity and failure modes go away
> An additional component a Directory implementation that will work well with 
> blob stores.  We probably want one that treats local disk as a cache since 
> the latency to remote storage is so large.  I think there are still some 
> "locking" issues to be solved here (ensuring that more than one writer to the 
> same index won't corrupt it).  This should probably be pulled out into a 
> different JIRA issue.



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