Wait! How can you do distance calculations across different shards efficiently?
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Smiley, David W. <dsmi...@mitre.org> wrote: > I haven't used PostGIS so I can't offer a real comparison. I think if you > were to try out both, you'd be impressed with Solr's performance/scalability > thanks in large part to its sharding. But for "functionality richness" in so > far as geospatial is concerned, that's where Solr currently comes short. It > just has the basic stuff 80% of people want. > > ~ David Smiley > Author: http://www.packtpub.com/solr-1-4-enterprise-search-server/ > > On Apr 7, 2011, at 2:24 AM, Sean Bigdatafun wrote: > >> Thanks, David. >> >> I am thinking of a scenario that billions of objects, whose indices are too >> big for a single machine to serve the indexing, to serve the querying. Is >> there any sharding mechanism? >> >> >> Can you give a comparison between solr-based geospatial search and PostGIS >> based geospatial search? >> * scalability >> * functionality richness >> * incremental indexing (re-indexing) cost >> * query cost >> * sharding scheme support > > > > > > > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com
