Hmm. Doesn't that make (logical) index=collection? And (physical) index=core? Which creates duplication of terminology and at the same time can cause confusion between highest logical and lowest physical level.
Regards, Alex. P.s. Hoping not to start a new terminology war. 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) On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com>wrote: > The entire collection does have an index - a distributed index - which > consists of a Lucene index on each core/replica for the subset of the data > in that shard. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Alexandre Rafalovitch > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 1:12 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs... > > Can I just start by saying that this was AMAZING. :-) When I asked the > question, I certainly did not expect this level of details. > > And I vote on the cake diagram for WIKI as well. Perhaps, two with the > first one showing the trivial collapsed state of single > collection/shard/replica/core. The trivial one will also help to explain > why the example is now called 'collection1'. > > I think I followed everything, except for just added term of 'index'. Isn't > that the same as 'core'? Or can we have several indexes in one core? > > Regards, > Alex. > Personal blog: http://blog.outerthoughts.com/ > LinkedIn: > http://www.linkedin.com/in/**alexandrerafalovitch<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) > > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, darren <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote: > > This is the containment hierarchy i understand but includes both physical >> and logical. >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: darren <dar...@ontrenet.com> >> Date: >> To: dar...@ontrenet.com,yonik@**lucidworks.com <yo...@lucidworks.com>, >> solr-user@**lucene.apache.org <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> >> Subject: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs... >> >> Actually. Node/collection/shard/replica/**core/index >> >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: darren <dar...@ontrenet.com> >> Date: >> To: >> yo...@lucidworks.com,solr-**u...@lucene.apache.org<solr-user@lucene.apache.org> >> Subject: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs... >> >> >> Agreed. But for completeness can it be node/collection/shard/replica/** >> core? >> >> >> >
