On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Gargate, Siddharth <sgarg...@ptc.com> wrote: > Hi, > I just want to clear few things. > As far as I know, javabin is the default format used by SolrJ while > searching. > And for update requests default format is XML; XMLUpdateRequestHandler > is used. > If we set the request writer to BinaryRequestWriter then update request > is in javabin format and BinaryUpdateRequestHandler is used. > BinaryRequestWriter is supposed to be fast and efficient. > After SOLR-973 update request is still in XML format, but the XML is > directly written to the server.
Your understanding is correct > Please correct me if I am wrong about the default behavior. Also, please > let me know which one would be better in performance, > XMLUpdateRequestHandler or BinaryUpdateRequestHandler? BinaryUpdateRequestHandler is faster because you do not have the xml parsing overhead and the datasize is small (so less bandwidth) . > > Thanks, > Siddharth > -- --Noble Paul
