Re: Sharding with a SolrCloud

2013-08-02 Thread Oliver Goldschmidt
Mark, thank you for your reply. You have to have everything setup right, but yes, I think this should work. You would probably want to use a load balancer for failover or something, but I don't know what would stop the scatter gather from working under the right conditions. Yes, the

Re: Sharding with a SolrCloud

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Miller
On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Oliver Goldschmidt o.goldschm...@tuhh.de wrote: Isn't Solr Cloud acting like one solr server? The indices have to be maintained seperately - can't I just continue using them as shards and get one result list from both of them (thats how I did it before they

Re: Sharding with a SolrCloud

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Miller
On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Erick Erickson erickerick...@gmail.com wrote: node1 then queries each shard for the docs hosted on those shards. We might consider handling that if it's the only issue. It may not end up making sense, but I think we should always look into allowing requests to

Sharding with a SolrCloud

2013-07-31 Thread Oliver Goldschmidt
Hi list, I have a Solr server, which uses sharding to make distributed search with another Solr server. The other Solr server now migrates to a Solr Cloud system. I've been trying recently to continue searching the Solr Cloud as a shard for my Solr server, but this is failing with mysterious

Re: Sharding with a SolrCloud

2013-07-31 Thread Erick Erickson
You're in uncharted territory. I can imagine you use a SolrCloud cluster as a separate Solr for a federated search, but using it as a single shard just seems wrong. If nothing else, indexing to the shards will require that the documents be routed correctly. But having one shard in SolrCloud and

Re: Sharding with a SolrCloud

2013-07-31 Thread Oliver Goldschmidt
Thank you very much for that information, Erick. That was what I was fearing... Well, the problem, why I am trying to do this is, that the SolrCloud is managed by someone else. We are indexing some content to a pretty small local index. To this index we have complete access and can do whatever we

Re: Sharding with a SolrCloud

2013-07-31 Thread Erick Erickson
Well, assuming you have solved the differences in statistics between the index you maintain and the one in the cloud with respect to the scoring... My comment about indexing is probably irrelevant, you're not indexing anything to the SolrCloud cluster. But still doubt this will work. Here's the