On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Łukasz Osipiuk <luk...@osipiuk.net> wrote:
> > I am new to Solr and I want to get a quick hint if it is suitable for > what we want to use it for. > We are building e-mail platform and we want to provide our users with > full-text search functionality. > > We are not willing to use single index file for all users as we want > to be able to migrate user index from one machine > to another if need for scaling arises. As we want to have separate > index file per user, single Solr instance would have to > handle few thousands (or hundreds of thousands) index files (yet each > quite small in size). > We also need to add and remove indices online, as users register > accounts or are moved to different computer in cluster. > > Was Solr designed with such setup in mind? I search the net but did > not find such usage pattern. > > We can directly use Lucene and implement network layer and index > replication by ourselves but it would be nice to avoid it. > Solr was not designed with such a setup in mind. However, we are working on a similar use-case and building the additional features Solr would need. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1293 We're planning to put up a patch soon. Perhaps we can collaborate? -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
