We are planning to use the external Solr on tomcat for scalability reasons.
We thought that EmbeddedSolrServer uses HTTP too to talk with Ruby and vise-versa as in acts_as_solr ruby plugin. If Ruby is not using the HTTP to talk EmbeddedSolrServer, what is it using? Thanks and Regards Rajan Chandi On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Erik Hatcher <erik.hatc...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Sep 17, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Ian Connor wrote: > >> Is there any support for connection pooling or a more optimized data >> exchange format? >> > > The solr-ruby library (as do other Solr + Ruby libraries) use the ruby > response format and eval it. solr-ruby supports keeping the HTTP connection > alive too. > > We are looking at any further ways to optimize the solr >> queries so we can possibly make more of them in the one request. >> >> The JSON like format seems pretty tight but I understand when the >> distributed search takes place it uses a binary protocol instead of text. >> I >> wanted to know if that was available or could be available via the ruby >> library. >> >> Is it possible to host a local shard and skip HTTP between ruby and solr? >> > > If you use JRuby you can do some fancy stuff, like use the javabin update > and response formats so no XML is involved, and you could also use Solr's > EmbeddedSolrServer to avoid HTTP. However, in practice rarely is HTTP the > bottleneck and actually offers a lot of advantages, such as easy commodity > load balancing and caching. > > But JRuby + Solr is a very beautiful way to go! > > If you're using MRI Ruby, though, you don't really have any options other > than to go over HTTP. You could use json or ruby formatted responses - I'd > be curious to see some performance numbers comparing those two. > > Erik > >
