Re: shard versus core

2010-12-20 Thread Lance Norskog
> > > > --- On Mon, 12/20/10, Tri Nguyen wrote: > > > From: Tri Nguyen > Subject: Re: shard versus core > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Monday, December 20, 2010, 4:04 AM > > > Hi Erick, > > Thanks for the explanation. > > At whic

Re: shard versus core

2010-12-20 Thread Tri Nguyen
help performance.  One thing I've read is my disk should be at least 2 times the index.     --- On Mon, 12/20/10, Tri Nguyen wrote: From: Tri Nguyen Subject: Re: shard versus core To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Date: Monday, December 20, 2010, 4:04 AM Hi Erick,   Thanks for the explan

Re: shard versus core

2010-12-20 Thread Tri Nguyen
Hi Erick,   Thanks for the explanation.   At which point does the index get too big where sharding is appropriate where it affects performance?   Tri --- On Sun, 12/19/10, Erick Erickson wrote: From: Erick Erickson Subject: Re: shard versus core To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Date: Sunday

Re: shard versus core

2010-12-19 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 12/19/2010 2:07 AM, Tri Nguyen wrote: Was wondering about the pro's and con's of using sharding versus cores. An index can be split up to multiple cores or multilple shards. So why one over the other? If you split your index into multiple cores, you still have to use the shards parameter

Re: shard versus core

2010-12-19 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, they can be different beasts. First of all, different cores can have different schemas, which is not true of shards. Also, shards are almost assumed to be running on different machines as a scaling technique, whereas it multiple cores are run on a single Solr instance. So using multiple core