On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Zoran | Bax-shop.nl < zoran.bi...@bax-shop.nl> wrote:
> Hello, > > What are (ballpark figure) the hardware requirement (diskspace, memory) > SOLR will use i this case: > > > * Heavy Dutch traffic webshop, 30.000 - 50.000 visitors a day > Unique users doesn't much matter. > * Visitors relying heavily on the search engine of the site > o 3.000.000 - 5.000.000 searches a day > This is what matters. Assume 20,000 seconds per day (less than the real number by 4x, but allows for peak rates). That gives about 250 queries / second. Is this rate growing? > * Around 20.000 products to be indexed. In an XML this is around > 22 MB in size > o Around 100-200 products that will need reindexing everyday because of > copyrighters > This is small enough to not much matter. > * About 20 fields to be indexed per document (product) > * Using many features of SOLR > o Boosting queries > o Faceted search (price ranges, categories, in stock, etc.) > o Spellchecker > o Suggester (completion) > o Phonectic search > Just make sure that you are serving search results from memory, not disk. > The current index directory is around 20 MB, but that's my testing > environment. On my testing server indexing the 20K documents took under 10 > seconds. > Nice. > I tried to be as comprehensive as possible with these specs. Hopefully > it's enough to make an estimation. > So the next step is to build a test rig and see how many queries per second each server will handle. Since your index is small, this should be pretty easy. The required rate of 250 queries/s should be pretty easy to achieve. Nothing will substitute for a real test here. You should make sure you have staging / spare hardware and room to grow if necessary.
