Hi, Solr doesn't have anything like ES River. DIH (DataImportHandler) feels like the closest thing in Solr, though it's not quite the same thing. DIH pulls in data like a typical River does, but most people have external indexers that push data into Solr using one of its client libraries to talk to Solr, such as SolrJ.
Otis -- Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Utkarsh Sengar <utkarsh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am evaluating solr 4.2 and ElasticSearch (I am new to both) for a search > API, where data sits in cassandra. > > Getting started with elasticsearch is pretty straight forward and I was > able to write an ES > "river<http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/river/>" > which pulls data from cassandra and indexes it in ES within a day. > > Now, I trying to implement something similar with solr and compare both of > them. > > Getting started with > solr/example<http://lucene.apache.org/solr/4_2_0/tutorial.html>was > pretty easy and an example solr instance works. But the example folder > contains whole bunch of stuff which I am not sure if I need: > http://pastebin.com/Gv660mRT . I am sure I don't need 53 directories and > 527 files > > So my questions are: > 1. How can I create a bare bone solr app up and running with minimum set of > configuration? (I will build over it when needed by taking reference from > /example) > 2. What is a best practice to run solr in production? Am approach like this > jetty+nginx recommended: > http://sacharya.com/nginx-proxy-to-jetty-for-java-apps/ ? > > Once I am done setting up a simple solr instance: > 3. What is the general practice to import data to solr? For now, I am > writing a python script which will read data in bulk from cassandra and > throw it to solr. > > -- > Thanks, > -Utkarsh
