Hi Otis, While the main goal of SPDY is to reduce page load times - i think we could benefit from it in Solr context as well. The transport layer is still TCP - but SPDY allows multiplexing of requests. It also uses compression and reduces the overhead of http headers.
An excerpt from http://webtide.intalio.com/2012/03/spdy-support-in-jetty/ "SPDY reduces roundtrips with the server, reduces the HTTP verboseness by compressing HTTP headers, improves the utilization of the TCP connection, multiplexes requests into a single TCP connection (instead of using a limited number of connections, each serving only one request)," 1. For users who are using http client to communicate with Solr, for sending updates or for searching, they could benefit from SPDY optimizations. They could make use of Jetty Http Client and set up Solr on Jetty to enable communication over SPDY. 2. As far as SolrCloud internode communication is concerned - I am not very sure as to hw beneficial it would be. I brought his up because, in the Solr Cloud context, there's a lot of inter-node chatter happening to facilitate distributed search/distributed indexing. So - I was wondering if anyone else gave a thought about this. Cheers Vinay Some references: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper http://webtide.intalio.com/2012/03/spdy-support-in-jetty/ http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/current/spdy.html On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Otis Gospodnetic < otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm rusty on SPDY. Can you summarize the benefits in Solr context? Thanks. > > Otis > Solr & ElasticSearch Support > http://sematext.com/ > On Oct 25, 2013 10:46 AM, "Vinay Pothnis" <poth...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Couple of questions related to using SPDY with solr. > > > > 1. Does anybody have experience running Solr on Jetty 9 with SPDY > support - > > and using Jetty Client (SPDY capable client) to talk to Solr over SPDY? > > > > 2. This is related to Solr - Cloud - inter node communication. This might > > not be a user-list question - nonetheless, I was wondering if there would > > be some way to enable the use of SPDY for inter-node communication in a > > Solr Cloud set up. Is this something that the solr team might look at? > > > > Thanks > > Vinay > > >
