On 6-Jun-07, at 7:44 PM, Jeff Rodenburg wrote:
I've been exploring distributed search, as of late. I don't know
about the
"next solr" but I could certainly see a "distributed solr" grow out
of such
an expansion.
I've implemented a highly-distributed search engine using Solr (200m
docs and growing, 60+ servers). It is not a Solr-based solution in
the vein of FederatedSearch--it is a higher-level architecture that
uses Solr as indexing nodes. I'll note that it is a lot of work and
would be even more work to develop in the generic extensible
philosophy that Solr espouses.
It is not really suitable for contribution, unfortunately (being
written in python and proprietary).
In terms of the FederatedSearch wiki entry (updated last year), has
there
been any progress made this year on this topic, at least something
worthy of
being added or updated to the wiki page? Not to splinter efforts
here, but
maybe a working group that was focused on that topic could help to
move
things forward a bit.
I don't believe that absence of organization has been the cause of
lack of forward progress on this issue, but simply that there has
been no-one sufficiently interested and committed to prioritizing
this huge task to work on it. There is no need to form a working
group (not when there are only a handful of active committers to
begin with)--all interested people could just use solr-dev@ for
discussion.
Solr is an open-source project, so huge features will get implemented
when there is a person or group of people devoted to leading the
charge on the issue. If you're interested in being that person,
that's great!
-Mike
