Hi Satish, I can't think of any benefits you'd reap by complete/full reindexing into a new index. Incremental indexing will be faster.
Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Satish Kumar <satish.kumar.just.d...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Fri, April 29, 2011 2:58:25 PM > Subject: Baseline vs. Incremental Indexing > > Hi, > > Currently we index new/updated records every 30 minutes (I am referring to > this as incremental/partial index) -- i.e., records will be added to an > existing index. Are there any benefits in creating a new index (i.e., delete > the existing index and create it) from a performance point of view everyday > or a week? > > In other search system I worked with, incremental updates are generated in a > small file. When the server is restarted, each update in the small files > need to be applied. When there are several small files to be applied, the > restart process could take a few minutes to complete so the recommendation > was to run baseline process every night. I'm wondering if this is the case > with Solr as well? > > > Thanks, > Satish >
