On 7/11/2014 10:09 AM, jimtronic wrote: > We're trying to evaluate whether to use the CloudSolrServer in SolrJ or to > use the HttpSolrServer that is pointed at a software or hardware load > balancer such as haproxy or f5. This would be in production. > > Can anyone provide any experiential pros or cons on these? In addition to > performance, i'm interested in management, scalability, and stability. > > Technically at this point we can already support both, so I'm really looking > for best practices.
If Solr is running in cloud mode and you're using SolrJ for your client, you should definitely be using CloudSolrServer. There's no need for a load balancer in that situation. Because the client talks to zookeeper, it will generally adjust to cluster changes far more quickly than a load balancer, and it can seamlessly adjust to situations that require load balancer config changes. Thanks, Shawn
