Hi, Scaling might be required. How large is the index going to be in number of documents, fields and bytes and what hardware do you have? Powerful CPU's and a lot of RAM will help. And, how many queries per second do you expect? And how many updates per minute?
Depending on average document size you can have up to tens of millions documents on a single box. If read load is high, you can then easily replicate the data to slaves to balance load. If the data outgrows a single box then sharding is the way to go. But first i'd try to see if a single box will do the trick and perhaps replace spinning disks with SSD's and stick more RAM in it. Cheers, > Dear all, > > I need to construct a site which supports searching for a large index. I > think scaling Solr is required. However, I didn't get a tutorial which > helps me do that step by step. I only have two resources as references. > But both of them do not tell me the exact operations. > > 1) > http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Sc > aling-Lucene-and-Solr > > 2) David Smiley, Eric Pugh; Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server > > If you have experiences to scale Solr, could you give me such tutorials? > > Thanks so much! > LB
