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----- Original Message ---- > 1. Is it possible to query from another index folder (say index1) in > solr? You don't really query *from* an index, so I'm not sure what exactly you mean. However, you can query Solr remotely, if that's what you mean, for example using SolrJ if your application is written in Java. > 2. Is it possible to query 2 indexes(folders index1 and index2) stored > in the same machine using the same port on a single solr instance? Yes, please look for "DistributedSearch" on the Wiki. > 3. consider a case: > i have indexes in 2 shards, and i merge the indexes (present in 2 > shards) onto the 3rd shard > now i add more documents into shard1 and delete some documents > from shard 2 and update the indexes. > is it possible to send the differences only into shard 3 and then > merge it at shard 3? If I understood you correctly, then no, sending only the newly added/deleted documents in 2 indices to the 3rd index after the fact is not doable. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch