: : I may be incorrect here, but I assumed when querying a single core of a : SolrCloud collection, the SolrCloud routing is bypassed and I am talking : directly to a plain/non-SolrCloud core.
No ... every query received from a client by solr is handled by a single core -- if that core knows it's part of a SolrCloud collection then it will do a distributed search across a random replica from each shard in that collection. If you want to bypass the distribute search logic, you have to say so explicitly... To ask an arbitrary replica to only search itself add "distrib=false" to the request. Alternatively: you can ask that only certain shard names (or certain explicit replicas) be included in a distribute request.. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Distributed+Requests -Hoss http://www.lucidworks.com/
