No, Zookeeper is used for managing the locations of replicas and the leader for indexing. Queries should still be distributed with a load balancer.
Queries do NOT go through Zookeeper. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Apr 17, 2016, at 9:35 PM, John Bickerstaff <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> > wrote: > > My prior use of SOLR in production was pre SOLR cloud. We put a > round-robin load balancer in front of replicas for searching. > > Do I understand correctly that a load balancer is unnecessary with SOLR > Cloud? I. E. -- SOLR and Zookeeper will balance the load, regardless of > which replica's URL is getting hit? > > Are there any caveats? > > Thanks,