Should I install 4.x or 5.x? Book recommendations?

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Hume
Hi, I'm investigating installing a new Solr deployment to be able to search about two million documents (mostly HTML and PDF). QUESTIONS: A. Should I use Solr 4.x or 5.x? My concerns are mostly to do with support. Is 5.x too new to be able to get good answers and advice from the community?

Re: Should I install 4.x or 5.x? Book recommendations?

2015-10-23 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
Definitely 5.x. Lots of new goodies. It is true that some of the startup scripts are different and the example schemas could be slightly confusing if following a book, but I think it is well worth starting on a good foot. Just remember, no "collection1" anymore, all cores/collections are explicit.

Re: Should I install 4.x or 5.x? Book recommendations?

2015-10-23 Thread Robert Hume
Hi Alex, What's the title of your book? An amazon link would be useful too. Thanks! Rob On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch wrote: > Definitely 5.x. Lots of new goodies. It is true that some of the > startup scripts are different and the example schemas

Re: Should I install 4.x or 5.x? Book recommendations?

2015-10-23 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00D85K9XC (kindle version) I love the mixed reviews on that edition :-) https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/instant-apache-solr-indexing-data-how-instant (digital version from publisher). If you join my Solr Resources mailing list at:

Re: Should I install 4.x or 5.x? Book recommendations?

2015-10-23 Thread Upayavira
To add: 5.x is NOT a hugely different thing from 4.x. The version update was because of Lucene index versioning issues, nothing to do with core functionality within Solr. So, there really is no reason to hold back from using a 5.x release (any more than there is from holding back from using any

Re: Should I install 4.x or 5.x? Book recommendations?

2015-10-23 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 10/23/2015 12:22 PM, Robert Hume wrote: > I'm investigating installing a new Solr deployment to be able to search > about two million documents (mostly HTML and PDF). > > QUESTIONS: > > A. Should I use Solr 4.x or 5.x? My concerns are mostly to do with > support. Is 5.x too new to be able to

Re: Should I install 4.x or 5.x? Book recommendations?

2015-10-23 Thread Ray Niu
I would also suggest to use Solr5, as there are lots of new features. We are using 5.2.1 now, which is pretty stable. 2015-10-23 16:32 GMT-07:00 Shawn Heisey : > On 10/23/2015 12:22 PM, Robert Hume wrote: > > I'm investigating installing a new Solr deployment to be able to