Can have a look at http://katta.sourceforge.net/ or http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCollectionDistributionScripts
HTH Johannes On Mar 22, 2011, at 9:30 AM, sol myr wrote: > Hi, > What are my options for distributing an application that uses Lucene? > > Our current application works against a database of INVENTORY. We schedule > hourly checks for modified items (timestamp-based), and update a single > Lucene index. > Now we want to distribute out application, to a Grid, with failover, and a > bit of data sharing: > Say we have 2 branches - New York and Los Angeles. > > (1) Inventory of the NY branch is handled by 2 application servers, and 2 > database copies. They are exact replicates, for failover/load balance. > Similarly, the LA branch gets 2 application servers and 2 databases. > > (2) 90% of the time, each branch "minds its own business" and isn't > interested in the other branch's inventory. > However on rare occasions, an LA administrator needs to search the NY > inventory (we can compromise on data freshness, e.g. show data 10 hours > old). > > Does Lucene have built-in support for any of this? > If I'm to do this "from scratch" I'll probably just let each application > server maintain its own copy of Lucene index (with data only from its own > city, and hourly updates as before). > And for the requirement of "LA admin searching the NY inventory" I'd > schedule a task to copy the NY index into the LA server, every 10 hours. > > Is this a reasonable approach? Or are there Lucene-management tools that > would handle it better? > Thanks :) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
