If you are going to use SolrJ, CloudSolrServer is even better than a round-robin load balancer for indexing, because it will send the documents straight to the shard leader (you save one internal request). If not, round-robin should be fine.
Tomás On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Bill Au <bill.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am thinking of using a load balancer for both indexing and querying to > spread both the indexing and querying load across all the machines. > > Bill > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Tomás Fernández Löbbe < > tomasflo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You should still use some kind of load balancer for searches, unless you > > use the CloudSolrServer (SolrJ) which includes the load balancing. > > Tomás > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Erick Erickson < > erickerick...@gmail.com > > >wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > >
