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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»
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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»
Just as with any platform you choose, EC2 has its own limitations as well. These limitations are often different and harder to overcome than what you might find while running your own hardware. Without the proper planning and development, these limitations can wind up being extremely detrimental to the well being and scalability of your website or service.
There are quite ...more»
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