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by tmikaeld 1523 days ago
That's kind of my point, Solr and Lucene put the index in memory.
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omegalulw 1523 days ago
Can't the index be shared across a cluster? Possibly with multiple replicas for a share to allow for servers to easily go up and down?
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tmikaeld 1523 days ago
It can, but that would be slow and cost would be prohibitive.
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kevincox 1523 days ago
Really? It's just a bit of text. RAM is fairly cheap these days.
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liveoneggs 1523 days ago
not the entire index, only what is needed for each query.
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