I am also very surprised. Even though I am no longer using my solr-config-tool, the main thing I like about SolrCloud is how easy it is to bring up a new collection and set up the schema and fields that you want. I also like that I don't need to manage replication in the solr configuration.
-----Original Message----- From: Rick Leir [mailto:rl...@leirtech.com] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 12:34 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Poll: Master-Slave or SolrCloud? Shawn, Would you consider writing this up in a blog? Thanks -- Rick On April 28, 2017 11:04:02 AM EDT, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: >On 4/24/2017 8:58 AM, Otis Gospodnetić wrote: >> I'm really really surprised here. Back in 2013 we did a poll to see >how >> people were running Master-Slave (4.x back then) and SolrCloud was a >bit >> more popular than Master-Slave: >> https://sematext.com/blog/2013/02/25/poll-solr-cloud-or-not/ >> >> Here is a fresh new poll with pretty much the same question - How do >you >> run your Solr? ><https://twitter.com/sematext/status/854927627748036608> - >> and guess what? SolrCloud is *not* at all a lot more prevalent than >> Master-Slave. > >I don't use *either* for my primary Solr installs. My indexes are >distributed, with sharding maintained by my indexing code. Each copy >of the index is independently updated, rather than relying on Solr >features to replicate it. There are things I can do with this setup >that would be much more difficult (and maybe impossible) with either >SolrCloud or master-slave replication. > >Thanks, >Shawn -- Sorry for being brief. Alternate email is rickleir at yahoo dot com
