Re: Upgrade path from 5.4.1

2017-11-02 Thread Petersen, Robert (Contr)
-user Subject: Re: Upgrade path from 5.4.1 Yonik: Yeah, I was justparroting what had been reported I have no data to back it up personally. I just saw the JIRA that Simon indicated and it looks like the statement "which are faster on all fronts and use less memory" is just flat wrong w

Re: Upgrade path from 5.4.1

2017-11-02 Thread Erick Erickson
Yonik: Yeah, I was justparroting what had been reported I have no data to back it up personally. I just saw the JIRA that Simon indicated and it looks like the statement "which are faster on all fronts and use less memory" is just flat wrong when it comes to looking up individual values. Ya learn

Re: Upgrade path from 5.4.1

2017-11-02 Thread simon
though see SOLR-11078 , which is reporting significant query slowdowns after converting *Trie to *Point fields in 7.1, compared with 6.4.2 On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 9:06 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Erick Erickson > wrote: > > I _always_ prefer to reindex if possible.

Re: Upgrade path from 5.4.1

2017-11-01 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: > I _always_ prefer to reindex if possible. Additionally, as of Solr 7 > all the numeric types are deprecated in favor of points-based types > which are faster on all fronts and use less memory. They are a good step forward in genera, and fast

Re: Upgrade path from 5.4.1

2017-11-01 Thread Erick Erickson
I _always_ prefer to reindex if possible. Additionally, as of Solr 7 all the numeric types are deprecated in favor of points-based types which are faster on all fronts and use less memory. However, to use this functionality you'll need to re-index anyway. Solr 7 will still support Trie types, but

Upgrade path from 5.4.1

2017-11-01 Thread Petersen, Robert (Contr)
Hi Guys, I just took over the care and feeding of three poor neglected solr 5.4.1 cloud clusters at my new position. While spinning up new collections and supporting other business initiatives I am pushing management to give me the green light on migrating to a newer version of solr. The last