Re: solrcloud without faceting, i.e. for failover only

2015-01-06 Thread Chris Hostetter
: #1 is a trade off against being possibly more available to writes in the case : of a single down node. In the cloud case, you're still open for business. In : the classical replication case, you're no longer available for writes if the : downed node is the master. or to put it another way: clas

Re: solrcloud without faceting, i.e. for failover only

2015-01-06 Thread Michael Della Bitta
The downsides that come to mind: 1. Every write gets amplified by the number of nodes in the cloud. 1000 write requests end up creating 1000*N HTTP calls as the leader forwards those writes individually to all of the followers in the cloud. Contrast that with classical replication where only c

solrcloud without faceting, i.e. for failover only

2015-01-06 Thread Will Milspec
Hi all, We have a smallish index that performs well for searches and are considering using solrcloud --but just for high availability/redundancy, i.e. without any sharding. The indexes would be replicated, but not distributed. I know that "there are no stupid questions..Only stupid people"...but