On 6/10/2013 3:32 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: > No, there's no such notion in SolrCloud. Each node that is part of a > collection/shard is a replica and will handle indexing/querying. Even > though you can send a request to a node containing a different collection, > the request would just be forwarded to the right node and will be executed > there. > > That being said, do people find such a feature useful? Is aggregation > expensive enough to warrant a separate box? In a distributed search, the > local index is used. One'd would just be adding a couple of extra network > requests if you don't have a local index.
I use this concept in non-SolrCloud distributed search, only it's not a separate node, it's a separate core, which contains the shards and shards.qt parameters in the request handler definitions. Thanks, Shawn
