Using your terminology, I'd say core is a physical solr term, and index is a pysical lucene term. A collection or a shard is a logical solr term.
Upayavira On Fri, Jan 4, 2013, at 06:28 PM, darren wrote: > My understanding is core is a logical solr term. Index is a physical > lucene term. A solr core is backed by a physical lucene index. One index > per core. Solr team can correct me if its not accurate. :) > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> > Date: > 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 > - 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,yo...@lucidworks.com,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-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Terminology question: Core vs. Collection vs... > > > > > > Agreed. But for completeness can it be node/collection/shard/replica/core? > > > >
