Sure. And the people do it. Especially for their first deployment. I
have some prototypes/proof-of-concepts like that myself.
Just later don't say you didn't ask and we didn't tell :-)
Regards,
Alex.
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On 18 November 2016 at 20:45, Dorian Hoxha <dorian.ho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> @alex
> That makes sense, but it can be ~fixed by just storing every field that you
> need.
>
> @Walter
> Many of those things are missing from many nosql dbs yet they're used as
> source of data.
> As long as the backup is "point in time", meaning consistent timestamp
> across all shards it ~should be ok for many usecases.
>
> The 1-line-curl may need a patch to be disabled from config.
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I agree, it is a bad idea.
>>
>> Solr is missing nearly everything you want in a repository, because it is
>> not designed to be a repository.
>>
>> Does not have:
>>
>> * access control
>> * transactions
>> * transactional backup
>> * dump and load
>> * schema migration
>> * versioning
>>
>> And so on.
>>
>> Also, I’m glad to share a one-line curl command that will delete all the
>> documents
>> in your collection.
>>
>> wunder
>> Walter Underwood
>> wun...@wunderwood.org
>> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
>>
>>
>> > On Nov 17, 2016, at 1:20 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've heard of people doing it but it is not recommended.
>> >
>> > One of the biggest implementation breakthroughs is that - after the
>> > initial learning curve - you will start mapping your input data to
>> > signals. Those signals will not look very much like your original data
>> > and therefore are not terribly suitable to be the source of it.
>> >
>> > We are talking copyFields, UpdateRequestProcessor pre-processing,
>> > fields that are not stored, nested documents flattening,
>> > denormalization, etc. Getting back from that to original shape of data
>> > is painful.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Alex.
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>> >
>> > On 17 November 2016 at 18:46, Dorian Hoxha <dorian.ho...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Anyone use solr for source-of-data with no `normal` db (of course with
>> >> normal backups/replication) ?
>> >>
>> >> Are there any drawbacks ?
>> >>
>> >> Thank You
>>
>>
