If you want to randomly distribute requests across shards, then I think it's a case of Replication.
In Replication setup, all cores have the same schema AND data, so query any core should return the same result. It is used to support heavy load. Of course such setup will required some kind of load balancer. In Distributed Search the shards have the same schema, but NOT the same data. So there is no point of randomly querying a shard, because we will get randomly different results. ShlomiJ On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:15 AM, Hector Castro <hectcas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone had success with multicore single node Solr configurations that > have one core acting solely as a dispatcher for the other cores? For > example, say you had 4 populated Solr cores – configure a 5th to be the > definitive endpoint with `shards` containing cores 1-4. > > Is there any advantage to this setup over simply having requests > distributed randomly across the 4 populated cores (all with `shards` equal > to cores 1-4)? Is it even worth distributing requests across the cores > over always hitting the same one? > > Thanks, > > -- > Hector > >
