You should still use some kind of load balancer for searches, unless you use the CloudSolrServer (SolrJ) which includes the load balancing. Tomás
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yes, I think SolrCloud makes sense with a single shard for exactly > this reason, NRT and multiple replicas. I don't know how you'd get NRT > on multiple machines without it. > > But do be aware of: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3971 > "A collection that is created with numShards=1 turns into a > numShards=2 collection after starting up a second core and not > specifying numShards." > > Erick > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Bill Au <bill.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am currently using one master with multiple slaves so I do have high > > availability for searching now. > > > > My index does fit on a single machine and a single query does not take > too > > long to execute. But I do want to take advantage of high availability of > > indexing and real time replication. So it looks like I can set up > > SolrCloud with only 1 shard (ie numShards=1). > > > > In this case is SolrCloud still using distributed search behind the > > screen? Will MoreLikeThis work? > > > > Does using SolrCloud with only 1 shard make any sense at all? > > > > Bill > > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Tomás Fernández Löbbe < > > tomasflo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> It also provides high availability for indexing and searching. > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Bill Au <bill.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > So I guess one would use SolrCloud for the same reasons as distributed > >> > search: > >> > > >> > When an index becomes too large to fit on a single system, or when a > >> single > >> > query takes too long to execute. > >> > > >> > Bill > >> > > >> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> > wrote: > >> > > >> > > On 10/25/2012 1:29 PM, Bill Au wrote: > >> > > > >> > >> Is SolrCloud using distributed search behind the scene? Does it > have > >> > the > >> > >> same limitations (for example, doesn't support MoreLikeThis) > >> distributed > >> > >> search has? > >> > >> > >> > > > >> > > Yes and yes. > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> >
