Hi Adeel, I just started looking into SolrCloud and had some of the same questions.
I wrote a blog with the understanding I gained so far, maybe it will help you: http://outerthought.org/blog/491-ot.html Regards, Bruno. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Adeel Qureshi <adeelmahm...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have been using solr for a while and have recently started getting into > solrcloud .. i am a bit confused with some of the concepts .. > > 1. what exactly is the relationship between a collection and the core .. > can a core has multiple collections in it .. in this case all collections > within this core will have the same schema .. and i am assuming all > instances of collections within the core can be deployed on different solr > nodes to achieve distributed search .. > or is it the other way around where a collection can have multiple cores > > 2. at some places it has been pointed out that solrcloud doesnt actually > supports replication .. but in the solrcloud wiki the second example is > supposed to be for replication .. so does solrcloud at this point supports > automatic replication where as you add more servers it automatically uses > the additional servers as replicas > > I have a few more questions but I wanted to get these basic ones out of the > way first .. I would appreciate any response. > > Thanks > Adeel > -- Bruno Dumon Outerthought http://outerthought.org/
