My experience with Katta is that very quickly my developers adopted index as the aggregate of all the shards which is exactly what Andrzej is proposing. Confusion with the "index contains shards", "nodes host shards" terminology has been minimal.
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Andrzej Bialecki <a...@getopt.org> wrote: > We're currently using "collection". Notice how you had to add >> (global) to clarify what you meant. I fear that a sentence like "what >> index are you querying" would need constant clarification. >> > > I avoided the word "collection", because Solr deploys various cores under > "collectionX" names, leading users to assume that core == collection. > "Global index" is two words but it's unambiguous. I'm fine with the > "collection" if we clarify the definition and avoid using this term for > other stuff. -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
