You didn't mention how big your data is or how you create it. Hadoop would mostly used in the preparation of the data or the off-line creation of indexes.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Alireza Salimi <alireza.sal...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I have a basic question, let's say we're going to have a very very huge set > of data. > In a way that for sure we will need many servers (tens or hundreds of > servers). > We will also need failover. > Now the question is, if we should use Hadoop or using Solr Distributed > Search > with shards would be enough? > > I've read lots of articles like: > http://www.lucidimagination.com/content/scaling-lucene-and-solr > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch > > But I'm still confused, Solr's distributed search seems to be able to > handle > splitting the queries and merging the result. So what's the point of using > Hadoop? > > I'm pretty sure I'm missing something here. Can anyone suggest > some links regarding this issue? > > Regards > > -- > Alireza Salimi > Java EE Developer >
