posted by 
filed under
Everyone has probably already seen every caching class there ever was and ever will be. However, when I was searching for a class that could easily be switched from one data store to the next I couldn't find a thing. Every caching class I seemed to come by was written specifically for a single back end and with their predefined ...more»
Tags:
A couple months ago I wrote about the terrible performance and a work around for SOLR / Lucene search engine. I discovered that performance would drop off a cliff while using filter queries to narrow search results for search queries on common terms in large indexes. Although, it looks like the issue has been addressed in some of the latest ...more»
Single vs. multi-core sharded index. Which one is the right one? There is not a whole lot of information out there, especially when it comes to hard numbers and comparisons. There are a couple reasons for this. The first one that comes to mind is the multi-core functionality offered by Apache SOLR is very nascent. It was recently introduced with ...more»
Is your SOLR installation running slower than you think it should? Performance, throughput and scalability not what you are expecting or hoping? Do you constantly see that others have much higher SOLR query performance and scalability than you do? All it might take to fix your woes is a simple schema or query change.
The following scenario I am about to ...more»
I've been asked this and similar questions quite a bit lately. But before I delve into the answer to this I want to lay the foundation and ask you a question. This one question should play a large part in your final assessment to go with EC2 or not. The question you should ask yourself is:
How quickly do you actually ...more»
