On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:07 AM, ramanathan <ramanat...@youinweb-inc.com>wrote:
> > Hi, > > Can someone provide a practical advice of how large a Solr search index can > be? for a better performance for consumer facing media website?. > The right answer is that "it depends" :) It depends on the number of documents, size of a document, number of unique terms, kind of queries, frequency of updates etc. > > Is it good or bad to think about Distributed Search and dividing index in > earlier stage of development? > If your index can fit into a single box with acceptable response times, then this is the simplest way to get started. If not, then you'll need to use Distributed Search. Note that many installations use distributed search *and * replication together to handle large traffic. These are some good resources on this topic: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LargeIndexes http://www.lucidimagination.com/Community/Hear-from-the-Experts/Articles/Scaling-Lucene-and-Solr Ask away if you have specific questions. -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
