Setting up Solr cloud(horizontal scaling) is definitely a good idea for this big index but before going to Solr cloud, are you able to upgrade your single node to 128GB of memory(vertical scaling) to see the difference.
Thanks, Susheel -----Original Message----- From: Priti Solanki [mailto:pritiatw...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 10:51 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: SolrCloud setup guidance Hello Everyone, I would like to take you guidance of following I have a single core with 124 GB of index data size. Indexing and Reading both are very slow as I have 7 GB RAM to support this huge data. Almost 8 million of documents. Hence, we thought of going to SolrCloud so that we can accommodate more upcoming data. I have data for 13 country with their millions of products and we want to set up solrcloud for the same. I am in need of some initial thoughts about how to setup solrCloud for such requirement. How to we come to know how many nodes,core I would be needing to support this... we are thinking to host this on Amazon...Any guidance or reading links ,case study will be highly appreciated. Regards,