Gotcha. Now does that mean if I have 5 threads all writing to a local shard, will that shard piggyhop those index requests onto a SINGLE connection to the leader? Or will they spawn 5 connections from the shard to the leader? I really hope the former....the latter won't scale well.
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 10:28 -0400, Jamie Johnson wrote: > my understanding is that you can send your updates/deletes to any > shard and they will be forwarded to the leader automatically. That > being said your leader will always be the place where the index > happens and then distributed to the other replicas. > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Darren Govoni <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I just wanted to make sure I understand how distributed indexing works > > in solrcloud. > > > > Can I index locally at each shard to avoid throttling a central port? Or > > all the indexing has to go through a single shard leader? > > > > thanks > > > > >