Re: Discuss: virtual nodes in Solr

2019-07-07 Thread S G
It could be a matter of perspective but the benefit of going from N shards to N+k shards is just one and that benefit is a huge one IMO. You need not double your hardware when you have to expand your cluster "without doing a full re-ingestion". When you have several tera-bytes of data on a perform

Re: Discuss: virtual nodes in Solr

2019-06-29 Thread Erick Erickson
Offhand I suspect this would be an enormous effort, not worth the work. I agree that double-or-nothing is not terribly convenient, but that said since multiple replicas can be hosted on the same node and moved to other hardware as needed (oversharding, even for existing collections) there are wa

Re: Discuss: virtual nodes in Solr

2019-06-28 Thread Will Martin
From: S G mailto:sg.online.em...@gmail.com>> Subject: Discuss: virtual nodes in Solr Date: June 28, 2019 at 8:04:44 PM EDT To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Reply-To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Hi, Has Solr tried to use vnodes