Of course you may have some reasons to use Tomcat or anything else (i.e. your stuff may have more experience at Tomcat etc.) However developers generally runs Jetty because it is default for Solr and I should point that Solr unit tests run against jetty (in fact, a specific version of Jetty) and well tested (if you search in mail list you can find some conversations about it). If you follow Solr developer list you may realize using a well tested container or not. For example: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4716 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4584?focusedCommentId=13625276&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13625276can show that there maybe some bugs for non Jetty containers and if you choose any other container except for Jetty you can hit one of them.
If you want to look at the comparison of Jetty vs. Tomcat I suggest you look at here: http://www.openlogic.com/wazi/bid/257366/Power-Java-based-web-apps-with-Jetty-application-server and here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/08/google-chose-jetty 2013/7/13 Tim Vaillancourt <t...@elementspace.com> > We run Jetty 8 and 9 with Solr. No issues I can think of. > > We use Jetty interally anyways, and it seemed to be the most common > container out there for Solr (from reading this mailinglist, articles, > etc), so that made me feel a bit better if I needed advice or help from the > community - not to say there isn't a lot of Tomcat + Solr knowledge on the > list. > > Performance-wise, years back I heard Jetty was the faster/lighter-on-RAM > container in regards to Tomcat, but recent benchmarks I've seen out there > seem to indicate Tomcat is on par or possibly faster now, although I > believe while using more RAM. Don't quote me here. I'd love if someone > could do a Solr-specific benchmark. > > Another neat, but sort of unimportant tidbit is Google App Engine went > with Jetty, which to me indicates the Jetty project isn't going away > anytime soon. Who knows, Google may even submit back valuable improvements > to the project. Live in hope! > > Tim > > > On 11/07/13 08:14 PM, Saikat Kanjilal wrote: > >> One last thing, no issues with jetty. The issues we did have was >> actually running separate zookeeper clusters. >> >> From: sxk1...@hotmail.com >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>> Subject: RE: preferred container for running SolrCloud >>> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:13:27 -0700 >>> >>> Separate Zookeeper. >>> >>> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:27:18 -0700 >>>> Subject: Re: preferred container for running SolrCloud >>>> From: docbook....@gmail.com >>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>>> >>>> With the embedded Zookeeper or separate Zookeeper? Also have run into >>>> any >>>> issues with running SolrCloud on jetty? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:01 PM, Saikat Kanjilal<sxk1...@hotmail.com >>>> >wrote: >>>> >>>> We're running under jetty. >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>> On Jul 11, 2013, at 6:06 PM, "Ali, Saqib"<docbook....@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 1) Jboss >>>>>> 2) Jetty >>>>>> 3) Tomcat >>>>>> 4) Other...... >>>>>> >>>>>> ? >>>>>> >>>>> >>> >> >> >
