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…
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…