> But I've kind of gotten used to thinking of shards as the > actual physical queryable things...
I think a mistake was made referring to Solr cores as shards. It's the same thing with 2 different names. Slices adds yet another name which seems to imply the same thing yet again. I'd rather see disambiguation here, and call them cores (partially because that's what's in the code and on the wiki), and cores only. It's a Solr specific term, it's going to be confused with microprocessor cores, but at least there's only one name, which as search people, we know creates fewer posting lists :). Logical groupings of cores can occur, which can be aptly named core groups. This way I can submit a query to a core group, and it's reasonable to assume I'm hitting N cores. Further, cores could point to a logical or physical entity via a URL. (As a side note, I've always found it odd that the shards param to RequestHandler lacks the protocol, what if I want to use HTTPS for example?). So there could be http://host/solr/core1 (physical), core://megacorename (logical), coregroup://supergreatcoregroupname (a group of cores) in the "shards" parameter (whose name can perhaps be changed for clarity in a future release). Then people can mix and match and we won't have many different XML elements floating around. We'd have a simple list of URLs that are transposed into a real physical network request. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Yonik Seeley > <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Yonik Seeley >> <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: >>> I'm actually starting to lean toward "slice" instead of "logical shard". > > Alternate terminology could be "index" for the actual physical lucene > lindex (and also enough of the URL that unambiguously identifies it), > and then "shard" could be the logical entity. > > But I've kind of gotten used to thinking of shards as the actual > physical queryable things... > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com >
