Hi All I don't know if it answers any of your question but if you are interested by that check out :
Lucandra ( Cassandra + Lucene) 2011/2/1 Steven Noels <stev...@outerthought.org> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > Apologies if my "nothing funky" sounded like you weren't doing cool > > stuff. > > > No offense whatsoever. I think my longer reply paints a more accurate light > on what Lily means in terms of "SOLR for NoSQL", and it was your reaction > who triggered this additional explanation. > > > > I was merely attempting to say that I very much doubt you were > > doing anything funky like putting HBase underneath Solr as a replacement > > of FSDirectory. > > > There are some initiatives in the context of Cassandra IIRC, as well as a > project which stores Lucene index files in HBase tables, but frankly they > seem more experimentation, and also I think the nature of how Lucene/SOLR > works + what HBase does on top of Hadoop FS somehow is in conflict with > each > other. Too many layers of indirection will kill performance on every layer. > > > > > I was trying to imply that, likely your integration with > > Solr was relatively conventional (interacting with its REST interface), > > > > > Yep. We figured that was the wiser road to walk, and leaves a clear-defined > interface and possible area of improvement against a too-low level of > integration. > > > > and the "funky" stuff that you are doing sits outside of that space. > > > > Hope that's a clearer (and more accurate?) attempt at what I was trying > > to say. > > > > Upayavira (who finds the Lily project interesting, and would love to > > find the time to play with it) > > > > Anytime, Upayavira. Anytime! ;-) > > Steven. > -- > Steven Noels > http://outerthought.org/ > Scalable Smart Data > Makers of Kauri, Daisy CMS and Lily >
