Hello, All of this is covered on the Wiki, search for: distributed search
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rakhi Khatwani <rkhatw...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Cc: ninad.r...@germinait.com; ranjit.n...@germinait.com; > saurabh.maha...@germinait.com > Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 4:55:55 AM > Subject: solr in distributed mode > > Hi, > I was looking for ways in which we can use solr in distributed mode. > is there anyways we can use solr indexes across machines or by using Hadoop > Distributed File System? > > Its has been mentioned in the wiki that > When an index becomes too large to fit on a single system, or when a single > query takes too long to execute, an index can be split into multiple shards, > and Solr can query and merge results across those shards. > > what i understand is that shards are a partition. are shards on the same > machine or can it be on different machines??.... do we have to manually > split the indexes to store in different shards. > > do you have an example or some tutorial which demonstrates distributed index > searching/ storing using shards? > > Regards, > Raakhi
