Maybe the other thing in play here is that use-cases that "just work" in the master/slave environment are less likely to employ consultants so we get something of a skewed sense of who uses what ;)
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Charlie Hull <char...@flax.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/04/2017 15:58, Otis Gospodnetić wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm really really surprised here. Back in 2013 we did a poll to see how >> people were running Master-Slave (4.x back then) and SolrCloud was a bit >> more popular than Master-Slave: >> https://sematext.com/blog/2013/02/25/poll-solr-cloud-or-not/ >> >> Here is a fresh new poll with pretty much the same question - How do you >> run your Solr? <https://twitter.com/sematext/status/854927627748036608> - >> and guess what? SolrCloud is *not* at all a lot more prevalent than >> Master-Slave. >> >> We definitely see a lot more SolrCloud used by Sematext Solr >> consulting/support customers, so I'm a bit surprised by the results of >> this >> poll so far. > > > I'm not particularly surprised. We regularly see clients either with single > nodes or elderly versions of Solr (or even Lucene). Zookeeper is still seen > as a bit of a black art. Once you move from 'how do I run a search engine' > to 'how do I manage a cluster of servers with scaling for > performance/resilience/failover' you're looking at a completely new set of > skills and challenges, which I think puts many people off. > > Charlie >> >> >> Is anyone else surprised by this? See https://twitter.com/sematext/ >> status/854927627748036608 >> >> Thanks, >> Otis >> -- >> Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection >> Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/ >> >> >> --- >> This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. >> http://www.avg.com >> > > > -- > Charlie Hull > Flax - Open Source Enterprise Search > > tel/fax: +44 (0)8700 118334 > mobile: +44 (0)7767 825828 > web: www.flax.co.uk
