Re: how to assign dedicated server for indexing and add more shard in SolrCloud

2012-12-06 Thread Erick Erickson
well, you could probably do what you want. Go ahead and index on the "super cool AWS instance", just don't bring the replicas up yet. All the indexing is going to this machine. Once your index is constructed, bring up replicas. Old-style replication will take place and you should be off to the race

Re: how to assign dedicated server for indexing and add more shard in SolrCloud

2012-12-06 Thread Mikhail Khludnev
Jason, Thanks for raising it! Erick, That's what I want to discuss for a long time. Frankly speaking, the question is: if old-school (master/slave) search deployments doesn't comply to vision by SolrCloud/ElasticSearch, does it mean that they are wrong? Let me enumerate kinds of 'old-school sear

Re: how to assign dedicated server for indexing and add more shard in SolrCloud

2012-12-06 Thread Erick Erickson
First, forget about master/slave with SolrCloud! Leaders really exist to resolve conflicts, the old notion of M/S replication is largely irrelevant. Updates can go to any node in the cluster, leader, replica, whatever. The node forwards the doc to the correct leader based on a hash of the , which