You might also check out Solandra: https://github.com/tjake/Solandra
With Solr's configuration and indexes in Cassandra, you can benefit from replication, distribution etc., and still have Cassandra available for non-Solr specific purposes. Cheers, Jeff On Jul 27, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Tarjei Huse wrote: > On 06/01/2011 08:22 AM, Jason Rutherglen wrote: >> Thanks Shashi, this is oddly coincidental with another issue being put >> into Solr (SOLR-2193) to help solve some of the NRT issues, the timing >> is impeccable. > Hmm, does anyone have an idea on when this will be finished? > > I'm considering if I should wait for the patch to solidify or if I > should switch to ES. >> At a base however Solr uses Lucene, as does ES. I think the main >> advantage of ES is the auto-sharding etc. I think it uses a gossip >> protocol to capitalize on this however... Hmm... > Yes it looks nice. > T >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Shashi Kant <sk...@sloan.mit.edu> wrote: >>> Here is a very interesting comparison >>> >>> http://engineering.socialcast.com/2011/05/realtime-search-solr-vs-elasticsearch/ >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Mark >>>> Sent: May-31-11 10:33 PM >>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>>> Subject: Solr vs ElasticSearch >>>> >>>> I've been hearing more and more about ElasticSearch. Can anyone give me a >>>> rough overview on how these two technologies differ. What are the >>>> strengths/weaknesses of each. Why would one choose one of the other? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> > > > -- > Regards / Med vennlig hilsen > Tarjei Huse > Mobil: 920 63 413 > -- Jeff Schmidt 535 Consulting j...@535consulting.com http://www.535consulting.com (650) 423-1068