RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
And based on the previous explanation there is never a "copy of a shard". A shard represents and contains only replicas for itself, replicas being copies of cores within the shard. --- Original Message --- On 1/3/2013 11:58 AM Walter Underwood wrote:A "factor" is multiplied, so multip

RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
Great point. --- Original Message --- On 1/3/2013 10:42 AM Per Steffensen wrote:On 1/3/13 4:33 PM, Mark Miller wrote: > This has pretty much become the standard across other distributed systems and in the literat…err…books. Hmmm Im not sure you are right about that. Maybe more than one

Re: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Darren Govoni wrote: > I think what's confusing about your explanation below is when you have a > situation where there is no replication factor. That's possible too, yes? > > So in that case, is each core of a shard of a collection, still referred to > as a replica

RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
--- From: Darren Govoni Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:10 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs... Thanks. I got that part. A group of shards (and therefore cores) represent a collection, yes. But a single shard exist only on a single co

RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
pansky -Original Message- From: Darren Govoni Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:51 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs... Thanks again. (And sorry to jump into this convo) But I had a question on your statement: On 1

RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
he terminology. So, we're not "sharding shards", but we are "replicating shards". -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Darren Govoni Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:51 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Coll

RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
of the terminology. So, we're not "sharding shards", but we are "replicating shards". -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Darren Govoni Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:51 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Re: Terminology question: Core

RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
ferent shards on the same node/box for a partial improvement of performance and fault tolerance. A Solr "cloud' is really a cluster. -- Jack Krupansky -Original Message- From: Darren Govoni Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:16 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Re:

RE: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs...

2013-01-03 Thread Darren Govoni
Good write up. And what about "node"? I think there needs to be an official glossary of terms that is sanctioned by the solr team and some terms still ni use may need to be labeled "deprecated". After so many years, its still confusing. --- Original Message --- On 1/3/2013 08:07 AM