Re: Local development and SolrCloud

2018-08-23 Thread John Blythe
Thanks everyone. I think we forgot that cloud doesn’t have to be clustered. That local overhead being avoided makes it a much easier pill to swallow as far as local performance (vs. having all the extra containers running in docker) Will see what we can spin up and ask questions if/as they arise!

Re: Local development and SolrCloud

2018-08-22 Thread Erick Erickson
I do quite a bit of "correctness" testing on a local stand-alone Solr, as Walter says, that's often easier to debug, especially when working through creating the proper analysis chains, do queries do what I expect and the like. That said, I'd never jump straight to SolrCloud implementations withou

Re: Local development and SolrCloud

2018-08-22 Thread Walter Underwood
We use Solr Cloud where we need sharding or near real time updates. For non-sharded collections that are updated daily, we use master-slave. There are some scaling and management advantages to the loose coupling in a master slave cluster. Just clone a slave instance and fire it up. Also, load be

Re: Local development and SolrCloud

2018-08-22 Thread Sameer Maggon
Why not just revert to everything SolrCloud? The advantages you will have is that you or your other team members are using the same APIs, parameters, experience, etc. that they will be using when they go from one environment to another. It would be less confusion to explain to someone why you are d

Local development and SolrCloud

2018-08-22 Thread John Blythe
For those of you who are developing applications with solr and are using solrcloud in production: what are you doing locally? Cloud seems unnecessary locally besides testing strictly for cloud specific use cases or configurations. Am I totally off basis there? We are considering keeping a “standard