bq: I have encountered someone who has a collection with five billion documents in it...
I know of installations many times that. Admittedly when you start getting into the 100s of billions you must plan carefully.... Erick On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Susheel Kumar <susheel2...@gmail.com> wrote: > For media like images etc, there is LIRE solr plugin which can be utilised. > I have used in the past and may meet your requirement. See > http://www.lire-project.net/ > > Thanks, > Susheel > > On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > >> On 11/3/2016 2:49 AM, Chien Nguyen wrote: >> > Hi everyone! I'm a newbie in using Apache Solr. I've read some >> > documents about it. But i can't answer some questions. >> >> Second reply, so I'm aiming for more detail. >> >> > 1. How many documents Solr can search at a moment?? >> >> A *single* Solr index has Lucene's limitation of slightly more than 2 >> billion documents. This is part of the problem solved by SolrCloud. By >> throwing multiple machines/shards at the problem, there is effectively >> no limit to the size of a SolrCloud collection. I have encountered >> someone who has a collection with five billion documents in it. >> >> That 2 billion document limit I mentioned, which is Java's >> Integer.MAX_VALUE, is the ONLY hard limit that I know of in the >> software, and only applies when the index is not sharded. >> >> > 2. Can Solr index the media data?? >> >> I have no idea what you meant here, but if you mean metadata, Solr most >> likely can handle it. If you meant actual media, like an image, I >> believe there is a binary field type that you can even store a full >> source document in, but that is not normally the way Solr is used, and I >> don't recommend it. >> >> > 3. What's the max size of document that Solr can index??? >> >> I don't think there is a limit. I think there are some limits on the >> number and size of individual terms, but not on the total size of a >> document. If documents get particularly large and numerous, performance >> might suffer, but I am not aware of any total size limitations. >> >> Thanks, >> Shawn >> >>
