Here is a talk I did on this topic at HPTS a few years ago. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Robert Petersen <rober...@buy.com> wrote:
> I see there is a lot of discussions about "micro-sharding", I'll have to > read them. I'm on an older version of solr and just use master index > replicating out to a farm of slaves. It always seemed like sharding > causes a lot of background traffic to me when I read about it, but I > never tried it out. Thanks for the heads up on that topic... :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yury Kats [mailto:yuryk...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:16 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Core overhead > > On 12/15/2011 4:46 PM, Robert Petersen wrote: > > Sure that is possible, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of > sharding? > > Why distribute across one machine? Just keep all in one index in that > > case is my thought there... > > To be able to scale w/o re-indexing. Also often referred to as > "micro-sharding". >
