On 2018/03/15 13:11:16, Nick Wellnhofer <[email protected]> wrote: 
> On 15/03/2018 00:14, [email protected] wrote:
> > I want to save the index files in rocksdb. Idea is to use another 
> > opensource project - https://github.com/pinterest/rocksplicator (or other 
> > WAL reading mechanism) by which I can replicate the index data to slave 
> > systems.
> 
> I'm not sure whether such an approach makes sense. Lucy is basically a 
> specialized database itself, so your question is similar to asking how you 
> could replicate a MySQL database using a key-value store.
> 
> > What will be equivalnet of DirectoryFactory.java in Apache lucy.  I see
> > I see FSDirHanlde.c and its corresponding files 
> > (FSFileHandle.c,FSFolder,FileHandle.c,Folder.c)
> > and RamDirHandle.c and its corresponding files.
> > 
> > Can some one please provides pointers if my approch is correct . Will it 
> > cause issues in merging process.
> 
> You can implement your own storage backend by subclassing Folder, FileHandle 
> and DirHandle. Lucy adheres to a write-once philosophy, so theoretically, it 
> should be possible to use a key-value DB as backend. But it's probably a lot 
> easier to move the index files to slave machines in more direct way.
> 
> Also, what's your motivation for replicating Lucy indices? Availability? 
> Performance? Maybe there's a simpler overall approach.
> 
> Nick
> 

Hello ,
Thanks for the reply. its more about availability.
I went through this link -
http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2017/09/lucenes-near-real-time-segment-index.html
I was thinking of implementing ; can you suggest what will be best method of 
implementing above methodlogy
regards

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