Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

When combining a load balancer with SolrCloud, the handler definitions in solrconfig.xml should set preferLocalShards to true (which Tom mentioned) Thanks Shawn! I was wondering where to set this... Yup - my IT guy is sharp, sharp, sharp -- nice to get this confirmation from the list... On

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

@Charlie It's easy to do and wow does it save time and database resources... I've built a Spring Boot Micro-services architecture that also registers in Zookeeper. One micro-service pulls from the original data source and pushes to Kafka. The second micro-service pulls from Kafka into SOLR.

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

On 4/18/2016 11:22 AM, John Bickerstaff wrote: > So - my IT guy makes the case that we don't really need Zookeeper / Solr > Cloud... > I'm biased in terms of using the most recent functionality, but I'm aware > that bias is not necessarily based on facts and want to do my due > diligence... > >

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

On 18/04/2016 18:22, John Bickerstaff wrote: So - my IT guy makes the case that we don't really need Zookeeper / Solr Cloud... He may be right - we're serving static data (changes to the collection occur only 2 or 3 times a year and are minor) We probably could have 3 or 4 Solr nodes running

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

inging up a whole new solr on a whole new server - > > > SolrCloud already virtualizes this, and so I can make up a random > > > collection name that doesn't conflict, and create the thing, and smoke > test > > > with it. I know that standard practice is to bring up all new no

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

erstaff [mailto:j...@johnbickerstaff.com] > > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 1:23 PM > > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer? > > > > So - my IT guy makes the case that we don't really need Zookeeper / Solr > >

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

om] > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 1:23 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer? > > So - my IT guy makes the case that we don't really need Zookeeper / Solr > Cloud... > > He may be right - we're serving static data (changes

RE: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

't see why this is needed. -Original Message- From: John Bickerstaff [mailto:j...@johnbickerstaff.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 1:23 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer? So - my IT guy makes the case that we don't really need

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

So - my IT guy makes the case that we don't really need Zookeeper / Solr Cloud... He may be right - we're serving static data (changes to the collection occur only 2 or 3 times a year and are minor) We probably could have 3 or 4 Solr nodes running in non-Cloud mode -- each configured the same

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:52 PM, John Bickerstaff wrote: > Thanks all - very helpful. > > @Shawn - your reply implies that even if I'm hitting the URL for a single > endpoint via HTTP - the "balancing" will still occur across the Solr Cloud > (I understand the caveat

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

Excellent - thanks! On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Erick Erickson wrote: > Your summary pretty much nails it. > > For (b) note that CloudSolrClient uses an internal software load > balancer to distribute queries, FWIW. > > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:52 AM, John

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

Your summary pretty much nails it. For (b) note that CloudSolrClient uses an internal software load balancer to distribute queries, FWIW. On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:52 AM, John Bickerstaff wrote: > Thanks all - very helpful. > > @Shawn - your reply implies that even

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

Thanks all - very helpful. @Shawn - your reply implies that even if I'm hitting the URL for a single endpoint via HTTP - the "balancing" will still occur across the Solr Cloud (I understand the caveat about that single endpoint being a potential point of failure). I just want to verify that I'm

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

On 4/17/2016 10:35 PM, John Bickerstaff wrote: > My prior use of SOLR in production was pre SOLR cloud. We put a > round-robin load balancer in front of replicas for searching. > > Do I understand correctly that a load balancer is unnecessary with SOLR > Cloud? I. E. -- SOLR and Zookeeper will

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

SolrJ does indeed provide load balancing via CloudSolrClient which uses LBHttpSolrClient: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/5_5_0/solr-solrj/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/CloudSolrClient.html https://lucene.apache.org/solr/5_5_0/solr-solrj/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrClient.html

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

Hi, How are you executing searches? I am asking because if you search using Solr client, for example SolrJ - ie. create instance of CloudSolrClient, and not directly via HTTP endpoint, it will provided load-balancing (last time I checked it picks random non-stale node). Thanks, Jarek On Mon,

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

Thanks, so on the matter of indexing -- while I could isolate a cloud replica from queries by not including it in the load balancer's list... ... I cannot isolate any of the replicas from an indexing perspective by a similar strategy because the SOLR leader decides who does indexing? Or do all

Re: Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

No, Zookeeper is used for managing the locations of replicas and the leader for indexing. Queries should still be distributed with a load balancer. Queries do NOT go through Zookeeper. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Apr 17, 2016,

Verifying - SOLR Cloud replaces load balancer?

My prior use of SOLR in production was pre SOLR cloud. We put a round-robin load balancer in front of replicas for searching. Do I understand correctly that a load balancer is unnecessary with SOLR Cloud? I. E. -- SOLR and Zookeeper will balance the load, regardless of which replica's URL is