Yes, you can access SolrCloud in any std way you can access Solr. The main difference when using a client that does not know how to talk to ZooKeeper about the cluster state:
You have to specify a particular machines address or setup a load balancer when using a 'dumb client. A dumb client will not know about additions or removals from the cluster - if you are using a load balancer you will have to update it with the new state. A dumb client won't be able to optimize some updates to leaders. It's still a perfectly reasonable option to not use a 'smart' client though. - Mark On Dec 14, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Luis Cappa Banda <luisca...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I've always used Java as the backend language to program search modules, > and I know that CloudSolrServer implementation is the way to interact with > SolrCloud. However, I'm starting to love Node.js and I was wondering if > there exists the posibility to launch queries to a SolrCloud with the "old > fashioned" sharding syntax. > > Thank you in advance! > > Best regards.
