Hi, SolrCloud now has the same index aliasing as Elasticsearch. I can't lookup the link now but Zoie from LinkedIn has Hourglass, which is uses for circular buffer sort of index setup if I recall correctly.
Otis Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On May 24, 2013 10:26 AM, "Saikat Kanjilal" <sxk1...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello Solr community folks, > I am doing some investigative work around how to roll and manage indexes > inside our solr configuration, to date I've come up with an architecture > that separates a set of masters that are focused on writes and get > replicated periodically and a set of slave shards strictly docused on > reads, additionally for each master index the design contains partial > purges which get performed on each of the slave shards as well as the > master to keep the data current. However the architecture seems a bit > more complex than I'd like with a lot of moving pieces. I was wondering if > anyone has ever handled/designed an architecture around a "conveyor belt" > or rolling window of indexes around n days of data and if there are best > practices around this. One thing I was thinking about was whether to keep > a conveyor belt list of the slave shards and rotate them as needed and drop > the master periodically and make its backup temporarily the master. > > > Anyways would love to hear thoughts and usecases that are similar from the > community. > > Regards