On 10/1/2014 11:23 PM, Danesh Kuruppu wrote: > Currently we are using solr for service meta data indexing and Searching . > we have embedded solr server running in our application and we are using > solr 1.4 version. Have some doubts to be clear. > > 1. What are the performance improvements we can gain from updating to the > latest solr version(4.10.1).
One of the key areas that's better/faster is indexing, but there are performance improvements for querying too. Solr and Lucene have evolved considerably in the four years since Solr 1.4 (using Lucene 2.9) was released. > 2. Currently we are using embedded solr, I have an idea of moving to > standalone server. What is best way of using standalone server in our java > webapp. The embedded server is still available, although even in 1.4 it was not recommended for anything but a proof of concept. You should simply install one or more standalone servers and access them from your app via http. On a LAN, the overhead introduced by http is minimal. Since you're already using the embedded server, that's simply a matter of changing EmbeddedSolrServer to HttpSolrServer or CloudSolrServer (depending on whether or not you use SolrCloud). You can also remove the solr-* and lucene-* jars from your classpath ... you just need the solrj jar and its "standard" dependencies, which can be found in the binary download or the compiled source code under dist/solrj-lib. Thanks, Shawn
