i think you answered the question by yourself ... these questions usually get the response that there is no answer. solr/lucence scale and distribute to whatever hardware you want to throw them.
you probably want to turn the question around - what is the maximum number of documents that your system *wants/will need to* index over 1, 2, 5, 10 years? at what rate? wat what load? design your architecture/hardware to the requirement. On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Marco Ciaramella wrote: > Hi all, > I am working on a performance specification document on a Solr/Lucene-based > application; this document is intended for the final customer. My question > is: what is the maximum number of document I can index assuming 10 or > 20kbytes for each document? > > I could not find a precise answer to this question, and I tend to consider > that Solr index can be virtually limited only by the JVM, the Operating > System (limits to large file support), or by hardware constraints (mainly > RAM, etc. ... ). > > Thanks > Marco
