Hi. We're currently looking at SolrCloud to improve management of our Solr cluster. There is one use case which I am wondering if SolrCloud provide any support for out of the box, or if our best bet is to stick with our current solution.
The use case is: We have a large number of shards, using the same schema - so, perfect for SolrCloud. Some of these shards should have restricted access, meaning only customers with certain privileges will be able to query them. The way we solve this today is to maintain a database listing those users who have access to these restricted shards. When building the shards-parameter for querying Solr, we then use this database to append the URLs of the restricted shards ONLY if the user has access to them. With SolrCloud it would be great to be able to use the distrib=true parameter, but that would override the approach we're currently using. My questions are: 1. would it be an idea to create a separate collection for the shards that are restricted? If so, is there currently any support for specifying which collections to search so that we could implement the solution outlined above, but for collections rather than shards? 2. If no-go on #1, are we better off sticking with our current approach and skip using distrib=true which would query all shards? Any input appreciated! Best, Jaran -- Jaran Nilsen Skype: jaran.nilsen jarannilsen.com || codemunchies.com || notpod.com twitter.com/jarannilsen // www.linkedin.com/in/jarannilsen // facebook.com/jaran.nilsen
