thanks for your feedback Erick.
I am also aware of the current limitation of shard number in a collection is
fixed. changing the number will need re-config and re-index. Let's say if
the limitation gets levitated in near future release, I would then consider
setup collection for each customer, whi
This is a complex setup, all right.
A pluggable sharding strategy is definitely something that is on the
roadmap for SolrCloud, but hasn't made it into the code base yet.
Keep in mind, though, that all the SolrCloud goodness centers around the
idea of a single index that may be sharded. I don't t
I think you're conflating shards and cores. Shards are physical slices of a
singe logical index. An incoming query is sent to each and every shard and
the results tallied.
The case you're talking about seems to be more you have N separate indexes
(cores), where each core is for a specific user. Th
