On 6/3/2015 2:19 PM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > BTW, does anybody know how SolrCloud got that name? I mean, SolrCluster > would make a lot more sense since a cloud is typically a very large > collection of machines and more of a place than a specific configuration, > while a Solr deployment is more typically a more modest number of machines, > a cluster. It just seems totally out of sync with the current popular > conception of a cloud, and it helps confuse people as to when and where > people can use it. I think it must have occurred after the end of my tenure > at Lucid (October 2011), because my recollection is that it was then just > known as "distributed".
This all happened before I was paying attention to any development stuff on Solr. The earliest mention I have found so far is this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1873 Here's the first revision of the SolrCloud wiki page that I can access: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud?action=recall&rev=1 I can't find anything about the origins. I'd like to search the dev list for history, but I can't find anyplace where this list is searchable for the correct (2009-2010) timeframe. Possible origins that I have thought of: 1) *Very* large clusters were envisioned. There are real SolrCloud installs consisting of hundreds of machines and billions of documents. That certainly qualifies for the "cloud" moniker. 2) Somebody was interested in leveraging a hot buzzword, to help generate excitement and support for a new feature. Thanks, Shawn
