Logical shard sounds good as "the collection of all identical physical shards"
Another concept from Katta that is AFAIK missing from the Solr lexicon is the distinction between node and shard. In Katta, a node is a server worker instance that contains and queries physical shards. There is usually one node per physical server, but not always. In Katta an important performance and reliability optimization is that nodes do not contain identical shard sets. That is, shards are assigned randomly even when replicated. This improves robustness, code simplicity and load balancing. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com>wrote: > Should we use logical shard for this, or does anyone have any better ideas? -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
