On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Ravikumar Govindarajan <
[email protected]> wrote:
> I was exploring the replication options in SOLRCloud/ES and thought would
> share my findings here
>
> 1. There is a notion of master/slave(s) for every shard
>
> 2. Every operation is separately computed on master+slave(s)
>
> 3. Failover/Sync-Code is extremely hairy in both SOLR/ES...
>
> In blur, only the server responsible for shard does the computation. There
> is a huge reduction in resource consumption cluster-wide {I/O, CPU, Memory
> etc...} when compared to SOLR/ES etc... Failover/Sync is also quite
> clear/easy to understand...
>
> For a write-heavy system like ours, this is a huge boost...
>
Thanks for your thoughts!
>
> If my observation is correct, can we include this in blur-wiki?
>
I believe that your observations are correct and we should your
observations to the wiki or blur documentation to help others understand
some of the basics that you can get from using Blur.
Thanks again!
Aaron
>
> --
> Ravi
>
