Thanks everyone. I think we forgot that cloud doesn’t have to be clustered. That local overhead being avoided makes it a much easier pill to swallow as far as local performance (vs. having all the extra containers running in docker)
Will see what we can spin up and ask questions if/as they arise! On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 17:41 Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > I do quite a bit of "correctness" testing on a local stand-alone Solr, > as Walter says, that's often easier to debug, especially when working > through creating the proper analysis chains, do queries do what I > expect and the like. > > That said, I'd never jump straight to SolrCloud implementations > without my QA being on SolrCloud. Not only do subtle differences creep > in, but some things simply aren't supported, e.g. group.func. > > And, as Sameer says, you can set up a SolrCloud environment on just > your local laptop as many of the examples do for testing, there's > nothing required about "the cloud" for SorlCloud, it's not even > necessary to have separate machines. > > Best, > Erick > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> > wrote: > > We use Solr Cloud where we need sharding or near real time updates. > > For non-sharded collections that are updated daily, we use master-slave. > > > > There are some scaling and management advantages to the loose > > coupling in a master slave cluster. Just clone a slave instance and > > fire it up. Also, load benchmarking is easier when indexing is on a > > separate instance. > > > > In prod, we have 45 Solr hosts in four clusters. > > > > wunder > > Walter Underwood > > wun...@wunderwood.org > > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > > >> On Aug 22, 2018, at 5:23 PM, John Blythe <johnbly...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> For those of you who are developing applications with solr and are using > >> solrcloud in production: what are you doing locally? Cloud seems > >> unnecessary locally besides testing strictly for cloud specific use > cases > >> or configurations. Am I totally off basis there? We are considering > keeping > >> a “standard” (read: non-cloud) local solr environment locally for our > >> development workflow and using cloud only for our remote environments. > >> Curious to know how wise or stupid that play would be. > >> > >> Thanks for any info! > >> -- > >> John Blythe > > > -- John Blythe
