Solr does not do distributed indexing, but the development version _does_ do distributed search, in addition to replication. Currently, you can manually shard up your data to a set of Solr instances, and then query them by adding a 'shard=localhost:8080/solr_1,localhost:8080/solr_2' parameter.
See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-303 Thanks, Stu -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 5:04am To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: Does lucene support distributed indexing? Solr does not do distributed indexing, but index replication. All copies are identical. Lucene has some build in support for distributed search, please take a look at RemoteSearchable. For indexing, you can add a front load balancer in a naïve way. Regards, -----Original Message----- From: Samuel Guo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:22 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Does lucene support distributed indexing? Thanks a lot :) 2008/4/26 Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Apr 26, 2008, at 2:33 AM, Samuel Guo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am a lucene newbie:) > > > > It seems that lucene doesn't support distributed indexing:( > > As some IR research papers mentioned, when the documents collection > > become > > large, the index will be large also. When one single machine can't hold > > all > > the index, some strategies are used to solve it. such as that we can > > part > > the whole collection into several small sub-collections. According to > > different partitions, we can got different strategies : > > document-partittion > > and term-partition. but I don't know why not lucene support these ways:( > > can't anyone explain it ? > > > > Because no one has donated the code to do it. You can do distributed > indexing via Nutch and some (albeit non fault tolerant) distributed Search > in Lucene. Solr also now has distributed search. > > -Grant > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]