Don’t worry Fabio - nobody knows everything (apart from Hossman). Following on from Sandeep, to use SOLR, you extract the data from your MSSQL DB using the DataImportHandler and you can then query it, facet it, pivot it to your heart's content. And fast!
You can use almost anything to build the SOLR queries - Java & PHP being probably most popular. There is a library for Perl I think but never tried it. So, you keep your mssql database, you just don't use it for searches - that'll relieve some of the load. Searches then all go through SOLR & its Lucene indexes. If your various tables need SQL joins, you specify those in the DataImportHandler (DIH) config. That way, when SOLR indexes everything, it indexes the data the way you want to see it. DIH handles the data export from mssql -> SOLR and it's not too difficult to set up. You imply you're adding (inserting) data. How much, how often? DIH has a delta import feature so you can add data on the fly to SOLR's indexes. Much of it come down to the data model you have. My advice would be try it and see. You will be pleasantly surprised! -----Original Message----- From: fabio1605 [mailto:fabio.to...@btinternet.com] Sent: 02 July 2013 17:10 To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Newbie SolR - Need advice Thanks guys So SolR is actually a database replacement for mssql... Am I right.... We have a lot of perl scripts that contains lots of sql insert queries..... Etc How do we query the SolR database from scripts.... I know I have a lot to learn still so excuse my ignorance. Also... What is mongo and how does it compare I just don't understand how in 10years of Web development I have never heard of SolR till last week Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: "David Quarterman [via Lucene]" <ml-node+s472066n4074772...@n3.nabble.com> Date: 02/07/2013 16:57 (GMT+00:00) To: fabio1605 <fabio.to...@btinternet.com> Subject: RE: Newbie SolR - Need advice Hi Fabio, Like Jack says, try the tutorial. But to answer your question, SOLR isn't a bolt on to SQLServer or any other DB. It's a fantastically fast indexing/searching tool. You'll need to use the DataImportHandler (see the tutorial) to import your data from the DB into the indices that SOLR uses. Once in there, you'll have more power & flexibility than SQLServer would ever give you! Haven't tried SOLR on Windows (I guess your environment) but I'm sure it'll work using Jetty or Tomcat as web container. Stick with it. The ride can be bumpy but the experience is sensational! DQ -----Original Message----- From: fabio1605 [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: 02 July 2013 16:16 To: [hidden email] Subject: Newbie SolR - Need advice Hi we have a MSSQL Server which is just getting far to large now and performance is dying! the majority of our webservers mainly are doing search function so i thought it may be best to move to SolR But i know very little about it! My questions are! Does SolR Run as a bolt on to MSSQL - as in the data is still in MSSQL and SolR is just the search bit between? Im really struggling to understand the point of SOLR etc so if someone could point me to a Dummies website id apprecaite it! google is throwing to much confusion at me! -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Newbie-SolR-Need-advice-tp4074746.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Newbie-SolR-Need-advice-tp4074746p4074772.html To unsubscribe from Newbie SolR - Need advice, click here. NAML -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Newbie-SolR-Need-advice-tp4074746p4074782.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
