Yes, I think SolrCloud makes sense with a single shard for exactly this reason, NRT and multiple replicas. I don't know how you'd get NRT on multiple machines without it.
But do be aware of: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3971 "A collection that is created with numShards=1 turns into a numShards=2 collection after starting up a second core and not specifying numShards." Erick On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Bill Au <bill.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am currently using one master with multiple slaves so I do have high > availability for searching now. > > My index does fit on a single machine and a single query does not take too > long to execute. But I do want to take advantage of high availability of > indexing and real time replication. So it looks like I can set up > SolrCloud with only 1 shard (ie numShards=1). > > In this case is SolrCloud still using distributed search behind the > screen? Will MoreLikeThis work? > > Does using SolrCloud with only 1 shard make any sense at all? > > Bill > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Tomás Fernández Löbbe < > tomasflo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It also provides high availability for indexing and searching. >> >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Bill Au <bill.w...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > So I guess one would use SolrCloud for the same reasons as distributed >> > search: >> > >> > When an index becomes too large to fit on a single system, or when a >> single >> > query takes too long to execute. >> > >> > Bill >> > >> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: >> > >> > > On 10/25/2012 1:29 PM, Bill Au wrote: >> > > >> > >> Is SolrCloud using distributed search behind the scene? Does it have >> > the >> > >> same limitations (for example, doesn't support MoreLikeThis) >> distributed >> > >> search has? >> > >> >> > > >> > > Yes and yes. >> > > >> > > >> > >>
