Now that I've been running Solr Cloud for a couple months and gotten comfortable with it, I think it's time to revisit this subject.
When I search for the topic of using Solr as a primary db online, I get lots of discussions from 2-3 years ago and usually they point out a lot of hurdles that have now largely been eliminated with the release of Solr Cloud. I've stopped using the standard method of writing to my db and pushing out periodically to solr. Instead, I'm writing simultaneously to solr and the db with less frequent syncs from the database just to be safe. I find this to be much faster and easier than doing delta imports via the DIH handler. In fact, it's gone so smoothly, I'm really wondering why I need to keep writing it to the db at all. I've always got several nodes running and launching new ones takes only minutes to be fully operational. I'm taking frequent snapshots and my test restores have been painless and quick. So, if I'm looking at other NoSQL solutions like MongoDB or Cassandra, why wouldn't I just use Solr? It's distributed, fast, and stable. It has a great http api and it's nearly schema-less using dynamic fields. And, most importantly, it offers the most powerful query language available. I'd really like to hear from someone who has made the leap. Cheers, Jim -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SolrCloud-as-my-primary-data-store-tp4041774.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
