Z IN ASCII -- Solr Distributed Search and the Stale Check

Z IN ASCII — Solr Distributed Search and the Stale Check

25 Feb 2013 Since version 1.3.0 Solr has provided support for Distributed Search . Distributed Search allows one to run a query against a set of shards, handling the coordination and collation of the results on behalf of the user. This allows the splitting of an index across multiple nodes while at the same time keeping the convenience of a non-distributed search. As an index grows there inevitably comes a time when a single machine cannot adequately take full responsibility of it. The problems vary from disk space constraints, inadequate processing power, or large document sets with common terms. At some point, splitting the index makes sense because it allows to share the load as well as parallelize some of the work. Distributed Search, for the most part, hides the fact that the query is distributed. Yes, the shards must be passed in, so the user must know which shards make up the full index,

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