Hi, If you haven't already, please refer to:
http://www.ngdata.com/site/blog/57-ng.html http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/solr-cloud-concepts-td3726292.html http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud#FAQ Regards, Aloke On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to understand the core Solr terminology. I am looking for > correct rather than loose meaning as I am trying to teach an example that > starts from easy scenario and may scale to multi-core, multi-machine > situation. > > Here are the terms that seem to be all overlapping and/or crossing over in > my mind a the moment. > > 1) Index > 2) Core > 3) Collection > 4) Instance > 5) Replica (Replica of _what_?) > 6) Others? > > I tried looking through documentation, but either there is a terminology > drift or I am having trouble understanding the distinctions. > > If anybody has a clear picture in their mind, I would appreciate a > clarification. > > Regards, > Alex. > > Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch > - Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at > once. Lately, it doesn't seem to be working. (Anonymous - via GTD book) >
