Apache Solr distributed faceting feature has been introduced back in 2008 with the first versions of Solr (1.3 according to this jira[1]) . Until now, I always assumed it just worked, without diving too much into the details. Nowadays distributed search and faceting are extremely popular, you can find them pretty much everywhere (in the … Continue reading Apache Solr Distributed Facets
SolrCloud Leader Election Failing
At the time we speak ( Solr 7.3.0 ) SolrCloud is a reliable and stable distributed architecture for Apache Solr. But it is not perfect and failures happen. This lightening blog post will present some practical tips to follow when a specific shard of a collection is down with no leader and the situation is … Continue reading SolrCloud Leader Election Failing