I would strongly recommend taking a look at HTTP/2. It might not be fast enough for you, but it is fast enough for Google and there are already implementations.
http://http2.github.io/faq/ wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) On Mar 10, 2015, at 11:18 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > Saumitra: > > We certainly don't mean to be overly discouraging, so have at it! > There has been some talk of using Netty in the future as we pull the > war-file distribution out of the distro. Now, I have no technical clue > about the merits .vs. TCP. But that's another possibility you might > want to put into your analysis. > > Best, > Erick > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Saumitra Srivastav > <saumitra.srivast...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks everyone for the responses. >> >> My motivation for TCP is coming from a very heavy indexing pipeline where >> the smallest of optimization matters. I am working on a machine data parser >> which feeds data into Cassandra and Solr and we have SLAs based on how fast >> we can make data available in both the sources. We used to have issues with >> Cassandra as well but we optimized the s**t out of it. >> >> Now we want to do the same with Solr. While I do realize that this is going >> to be a lot of work, but if its something that will reap benefit in long >> run, then so be it. Datastax provides a netty based layer in their >> enterprise version which folks have reported to be faster. Now just because >> a commercial vendor ships it, doesn't mean we will jump into it without >> thinking. We will definitely do a effect-vs-effort analysis before >> committing to this. >> >> For majority of users, such high performance might not be a >> requirement/priority, so I understand the reluctance to go down this path. >> >> I think it would be best at this time that I start exploring this option and >> get back with my analysis. >> >> Thanks again. >> >> Saumitra >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-TCP-layer-tp4191715p4192176.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.