thats an opinion of course, RAM is cheap, 1 TB of memory and 3 of an SSD is less than a honda civic, and solr cloud has some weaknesses, I wont push one way or the other, I have used both, I just like old stuff and nginx is better than zookeeper
On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 10:13 AM Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 11/15/21 7:19 AM, Dave wrote: > > Stand-alone solr is in my opinion better if you have your own machines. > Currently solr cloud with the required zoo keeper machines just makes no > sense when you can just have nginx in front of a cluster of replicated > servers, > > > If you have an index large enough that it must be sharded across > multiple machines, SolrCloud is far easier than manual sharding. I've > done manual sharding -- with versions before 4.0, when SolrCloud made > its debut. If SolrCloud had existed when I built those indexes, I would > have used SolrCloud. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > >
