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Solandra is a real-time distributed search engine built on Apache Solr and Apache Cassandra.

Solandra is a real-time distributed search engine built on Apache Solr and Apache Cassandra.

At its core, Solandra is a tight integration of Solr and Cassandra, meaning within a single JVM both Solr and Cassandra are running, and documents are stored and disributed using Cassandra's data model.

Solandra makes managing and dynamically growing Solr simple(r).

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Cassandra or SOLR? What gives better performance to frond end read queries?

My team has asked me to choose between Cassandra and SOLR for faster response @ frond end queries. I told them that Cassandra is NOSQL db thing while SOLR is indexing thing. But then they say that we can push our complete db to SOLR (like using SOLR…
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Solandra vs. ElasticSearch

We are working with a Cassandra database that will store data in the petabyte range. We are thinking of using either ElasticSearch or Solandra, but we are having a fun time deciding between which to use. I'm wondering if the our database might get…
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Solr - highlight query phrase

Is it possible to highlight whole query terms? f.e. when I ask for "United States" I want to get: United States and not: United States I've searched the whole Internet for an answer, used all combinations of…
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Frequent Updates to Solr Documents - Efficiency/Scalability concerns

I have a Solr index with document fields something like: id, body_text, date, num_upvotes, num_downvotes In my application, a document is created with some integer id and some body_text (500 chars max). The date is set to the time of input, and…
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cassandra,solr,lucandra,solandra

I am developing a site using following technologies, Ruby on Rails,(ruby 1.8.7,rails 2.3.5) Cassandra 0.6.8, I want to index the Cassandra Database using Lucandra, How do I do this? Is there any RESTful APIs or any web services available for this,…
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Solr - match only exact phrase

I have a problem with a phrase query. Query input: "to many results" I want to have only the text that contain exact matching phrase: "word word word to many results word word word" "word word to many results word" But the problem is: "word word…
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Solandra to replace our Lucene + RDBMS?

Currently we are using a combination of SQL Server and Lucene to index some relational data about domain names. We have a Domain table, and about 10 other various other tables for histories of different metrics we calculate and store about domains.…
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When should I use Solandra

I am planning to use Cassandra to store my users passwords and at the same time the data for my website that need to be accessible via search. My Question is should I use two DB: Cassandra (for users passwords) and Solandra (for the websites data)…
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Why does a Solandra 2 node cluster perform indexing worse than a single node cluster?

In indexing tests using Solrj, 2 Solandra nodes are performing worse than 1. Each node is -Xms1G -Xmx12G Single index; Index is ~10M docs; each doc is ~4KB in size with a unique id. I built up the index to about 6M on a single node, then added a…
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Solandra Sharding: Insider Thoughts

Just got started on Solandra and was trying to understand the 2nd level details of Solandra sharding. AFAIK Soalndra creates number of shards configured (as "solandra.shards.at.once" property) where each shard is up to size of…
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Search document by id very slow

my documents has an id field, called "doc_id", declared with the following attributes: This id is marked as an unique key with the tag. I try to load many documents…
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Counting in facet results

By counting in facet results I mean resolve the problem: I have 7 documents: A1 B1 C1 A2 B1 C1 A3 B2 C1 A4 B2 C2 A5 B3 C2 A6 B3 C2 A7 B3 C2 If I make the facet query by field B, get the result: B1=2, B2=2, B3=3. A1 B1 …
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Ordered proximity search

By ordered I mean term1 will always come before term2 in the document. I have two documents: 1. "By ordered I mean term1 will always come before term2 in the document" 2. "By ordered I mean term2 will always come before term1 in the document" if I…
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Solandra / Elastic Search - full text searching (using Cassandra)

I'm using Cassandra for an app I am developing. I plan to use Solandra to query for documents. I am wondering if anyone has run into any way to use full text search in Solandra? Is there a way to get a hold of where documents are stored in Cassandra…
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Solr version supported by Solandra

Does anyone know what version of Solr that Solandra will support? Is it just the latest version? I'm most concerned with the geospatial capabilities of Solr and I would like to know if Solandra will support this. A link would be great also. Thanks.
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