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The "SolrCloud" page has been changed by YonikSeeley. The comment on this change is: add concept of "slice" to mean logical piece of the collection as opposed to shard which is physical.. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud?action=diff&rev1=12&rev2=13 -------------------------------------------------- https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/solr/branches/cloud/ - == ZooKeeper == == Distributed Request == @@ -49, +48 @@ http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?collection=collection1_NY,collection1_NJ,collection1_CT&shards=auto }}} - Query specific logical shards: + Query specific slices (logical pieces, a subset of the whole index). + In this example, the user has partitioned the index by date, creating a new slice (with corresponding shards) every month. {{{ - Hmmmm... + http://localhost:8983/solr/collection1/select?shards=auto&slice=slice_200812,slice_200912,slice_201001 }}} = Developer Section = @@ -107, +107 @@ '''shard''' - * A piece of a collection. A shard may or may not have replicas (copies), and may partially overlap with other shards. + * A physical piece of a collection, usually corresponding to a single Lucene index. A shard may or may not have replicas (copies), and may partially overlap with other shards. A shard has a specific address (i.e. replicas are considered different shards). + + '''slice''' + + * A logical subset of the collection. In the simplest case, a slice will be represented one more more shards with the same content (replicas). '''core'''
