Collection APIs to create collection and custom cores naming

How to use the 'property.name=value' in the api example[1] to modify core.properties value of 'name' While creating the collection with below query[2], the core names become 'aggregator_shard1_replica1' and 'aggregator_shard2_replica1'. I wanted have specific/custom name for each of these cores. I

How to use BitDocSet within a PostFilter

Hi everyone, I'm trying to write a PostFilter for Solr 5.1.0, which is meant to crawl through grandchild documents during a search through the parents and filter out documents based on statistics gathered from aggregating the grandchildren together. I've been successful in getting the logic co

Re: solr multicore vs sharding vs 1 big collection

Shawn, Thanks for the feedback. I agree that increasing timeout might alleviate the timeout issue. The main problem with increasing timeout is the detrimental effect it will have on the user experience, therefore can't increase it. I have looked at the queries that threw errors, next time I try it

Re: solr multicore vs sharding vs 1 big collection

On 8/2/2015 8:29 AM, Jay Potharaju wrote: > The document contains around 30 fields and have stored set to true for > almost 15 of them. And these stored fields are queried and updated all the > time. You will notice that the deleted documents is almost 30% of the > docs. And it has stayed around t

Re: Are Solr releases predictable? Every 2 months?

They are not that predictable. Somebody has to volunteer to be a release manager and then there is a flurry of cleanups, release candidates, etc. You can see all that on the Lucene-Dev mailing list. For example, a 5.3 has been proposed (as an idea) on July 30th. But not much happened since. But it

Re: solr multicore vs sharding vs 1 big collection

The document contains around 30 fields and have stored set to true for almost 15 of them. And these stored fields are queried and updated all the time. You will notice that the deleted documents is almost 30% of the docs. And it has stayed around that percent and has not come down. I did try optim

Are Solr releases predictable? Every 2 months?

When is 5.3 coming out? When is SOLR-6273 (Cross Data Center Replication) to be released? Any way to tell?

Re: Avoid re indexing

You do not want to add a new shard, first you want your docs evenly spread, secondly, they are spread using hash ranges, to add more capacity, you spread out those hash ranges using shard splitting. "Adding" a new shard doesnt really make any sense here. Unless you go for implicit routing where you