Hi Daniel, Yes there is a one-to-one relationship between Solr indices and cores. The one to many comes when you look at the relationship between cores and tomcat/jetty webapps instances. This gives you the ability to clone, add and swap cores around.
See for for core manipulation functions: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin Regards, Dave On 8 Aug 2011, at 04:35, Daniel Schobel wrote: > Can someone provide me with a succinct defintion of what a solr core > is? Is there a one-to-one relationship of cores to solr indices or can > you have multiple indices per core? > > Cheers, > > Daniel