Re: Solr Use Cases

2012-09-20 Thread aaron morton
Also, Cassandra is great for writes but not as optimized for reads. From cassandra 1.0 read throughout on a par with writes http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-0-performance You milage may vary depending on the workload. Cheers - Aaron Morton

Solr Use Cases

2012-09-19 Thread Roshni Rajagopal
Hi, Im new to Solr, and I hear that Solr is a great tool for improving search performanceIm unsure whether Solr or DSE Search is a must for all cassandra deployments 1. For performance - I thought cassandra had great read write performance. When should solr be used ?Taking the following use

Re: Solr Use Cases

2012-09-19 Thread Brian O'Neill
Roshni, We're using SOLR to support ad hoc queries and fuzzy searches against unstructured data stored in Cassandra. Cassandra is great for storage and you can create data models and indexes that support your queries, provided you can anticipate those queries. When you can't anticipate the

Re: Solr Use Cases

2012-09-19 Thread Michael Kjellman
If I were you I would look into ElasticSearch unless you are okay updating the search cache very infrequently. I tried Solandra vs ElasticSearch in our use case and there was no contest. Also, Cassandra is great for writes but not as optimized for reads. Honestly, it all depends on your use