Solr will match this in version 3.1 which is the next major release. Read this page: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud for feature descriptions Coming to a trunk near you - see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1873
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com On 27. sep. 2010, at 17.44, Mike Thomsen wrote: > (I apologize in advance if I missed something in your documentation, > but I've read through the Wiki on the subject of distributed searches > and didn't find anything conclusive) > > We are currently evaluating Solr and Autonomy. Solr is attractive due > to its open source background, following and price. Autonomy is > expensive, but we know for a fact that it can handle our distributed > search requirements perfectly. > > What we need to know is if Solr has capabilities that match or roughly > approximate Autonomy's Distributed Search Handler. What it does it > acts as a front-end for all of Autonomy's IDOL search servers (which > correspond in this scenario to Solr shards). It is configured to know > what is on each shard, which servers hold each shard and intelligently > farms out queries based on that configuration. There is no need to > specify which IDOL servers to hit while querying; the DiSH just knows > where to go. Additionally, I believe in cases where an index piece is > mirrored, it also monitors server health and falls back intelligently > on other backup instances of a shard/index piece based on that. > > I'd appreciate it if someone can give me a frank explanation of where > Solr stands in this area. > > Thanks, > > Mike
