Re: How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-21 Thread Renaud Delbru
Have you looked at Apache Nutch [1]. It is a distributed web crawl and search system, based on Lucene/Solr and Hadoop. [1] http://nutch.apache.org/ -- Renaud Delbru On 19/11/10 16:52, Bing Li wrote: Hi, all, I am working on a distributed searching system. Now I have one server only. It has t

Re: How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-20 Thread Alex Baranau
Make sure you are not going to "reinvent the wheel" here ;). There's been done a lot around the problem of distributes search engine. This thread might be useful for you: http://search-hadoop.com/m/ARlbS1MiTNY Alex Baranau Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch - Hadoop - H

Re: How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-19 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Bing Li wrote: > Hi, Gora, > > No, I really wonder if Solr is based on Hadoop? As far as I know, no it it isn't. > Hadoop is efficient when using on search engines since it is suitable to the > write-once-read-many model. After reading your emails, it looks like

Re: How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-19 Thread Bing Li
Hi, Gora, No, I really wonder if Solr is based on Hadoop? Hadoop is efficient when using on search engines since it is suitable to the write-once-read-many model. After reading your emails, it looks like Solr's distributed file system does the same thing. Both of them are good for searching large

Re: How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-19 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Bing Li wrote: > Dear Erick, > > Thanks so much for your help! I am new in Solr. So I have no idea about the > version. The solr/admin/registry.jsp URL on your local Solr installation should show you the version at the top. > But I wonder what are the difference

Re: How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-19 Thread Bing Li
Dear Erick, Thanks so much for your help! I am new in Solr. So I have no idea about the version. But I wonder what are the differences between Solr and Hadoop? It seems that Solr has done the same as what Hadoop promises. Best, Bing On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > You

Re: How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-19 Thread Erick Erickson
You haven't said what version of Solr you're using, but you're asking about replication, which is built-in. See: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication And no, your slave doesn't block while the update is happening, and it automatically switches to the updated index upon successful replicatio

How to Transmit and Append Indexes

2010-11-19 Thread Bing Li
Hi, all, I am working on a distributed searching system. Now I have one server only. It has to crawl pages from the Web, generate indexes locally and respond users' queries. I think this is too busy for it to work smoothly. I plan to use two servers at at least. The jobs to crawl pages and genera