Re: Using solr(cloud) as source-of-truth for data (with no backing external db)

2016-11-22 Thread Dorian Hoxha
Yeah that looks like the _source that elasticsearch has. On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Michael Joyner wrote: > Have a "store only" text field that contains a serialized (json?) of the > master object for deserilization as part of the results parsing if you are > wanting to save a DB lookup. >

Re: Using solr(cloud) as source-of-truth for data (with no backing external db)

2016-11-21 Thread Michael Joyner
Have a "store only" text field that contains a serialized (json?) of the master object for deserilization as part of the results parsing if you are wanting to save a DB lookup. I would still store everything in a DB though to have a "master" copy of everthing. On 11/18/2016 04:45 AM, Dorian

Re: Using solr(cloud) as source-of-truth for data (with no backing external db)

2016-11-18 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
Sure. And the people do it. Especially for their first deployment. I have some prototypes/proof-of-concepts like that myself. Just later don't say you didn't ask and we didn't tell :-) Regards, Alex. Solr Example reading group is starting November 2016, join us at http://j.mp/SolrERG New

Re: Using solr(cloud) as source-of-truth for data (with no backing external db)

2016-11-18 Thread Dorian Hoxha
@alex That makes sense, but it can be ~fixed by just storing every field that you need. @Walter Many of those things are missing from many nosql dbs yet they're used as source of data. As long as the backup is "point in time", meaning consistent timestamp across all shards it ~should be ok for man

Re: Using solr(cloud) as source-of-truth for data (with no backing external db)

2016-11-17 Thread Walter Underwood
I agree, it is a bad idea. Solr is missing nearly everything you want in a repository, because it is not designed to be a repository. Does not have: * access control * transactions * transactional backup * dump and load * schema migration * versioning And so on. Also, I’m glad to share a one-l

Re: Using solr(cloud) as source-of-truth for data (with no backing external db)

2016-11-17 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
I've heard of people doing it but it is not recommended. One of the biggest implementation breakthroughs is that - after the initial learning curve - you will start mapping your input data to signals. Those signals will not look very much like your original data and therefore are not terribly suit

Using solr(cloud) as source-of-truth for data (with no backing external db)

2016-11-16 Thread Dorian Hoxha
Hi, Anyone use solr for source-of-data with no `normal` db (of course with normal backups/replication) ? Are there any drawbacks ? Thank You