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Re: Solr 8.6.1

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Post by technicolorwhat »

Weirdly I still find Solr easier to use then ES. Solrs's bulk import has csv support out of the box instead of converting it to json first and increasing its size and payload a lot. The query DSL is way easier and better documented I find. And it tends not to break all the time between releases. I moved a couple of times from Solr to Es and back again. SOLR comes with a tiny admin that you can just use OOB and use to fire your queries against instead of choosing another frontend, configuring and setting that up etc. I find solr's experience way easier and lower ceremony after all.

Re: Solr 8.6.1

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Post by sheeshkebab »

technicolorwhat wrote: post #4

Weirdly I still find Solr easier to use then ES. Solrs's bulk import has csv support out of the box instead of converting it to json first and increasing its size and payload a lot. The query DSL is way easier and better documented I find. And it tends not to break all the time between releases. I moved a couple of times from Solr to Es and back again. SOLR comes with a tiny admin that you can just use OOB and use to…

It’s also amazing how versatile solr is - I’ve used as both an embedded search lib in an tool as well as a multi region distributed replicated cluster in large scale prod environments, all from pretty much the same distribution.

Re: Solr 8.6.1

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Post by leetrout »

sheeshkebab wrote: post #6
technicolorwhat wrote: post #4

Weirdly I still find Solr easier to use then ES. Solrs's bulk import has csv support out of the box instead of converting it to json first and increasing its size and payload a lot. The query DSL is way easier and better documented I find. And it tends not to break all the time between releases. I moved a couple of times from Solr to Es and back again. SOLR comes with a tiny admin that you can just use OOB and use to…

It’s also amazing how versatile solr is - I’ve used as both an embedded search lib in an tool as well as a multi region distributed replicated cluster in large scale prod environments, all from pretty much the same distribution.

Could you speak more about using solr as a primary DB? Or did I misunderstand how you were using it?

Re: Solr 8.6.1

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Post by joking »

leetrout wrote: post #8
sheeshkebab wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s also amazing how versatile solr is - I’ve used as both an embedded search lib in an tool as well as a multi region distributed replicated cluster in large scale prod environments, all from pretty much the same distribution.

Could you speak more about using solr as a primary DB? Or did I misunderstand how you were using it?

you can, but almost nobody will recommend to use it, neither will do with elasticsearch. In most cases it works, but it has priorized speed over resilience, so it's better to have a source from where you can rebuild the index.

Re: Solr 8.6.1

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Post by gengstrand »

I remember load testing both ES and Solr about 3 years ago. What was tested was the indexing of randomly generated 500 word documents and keyword based search. When it came to indexing, Solr was faster but ES had better throughput. When it came to querying, Solr was the clear winner.

https://glennengstrand.info/software/performance/elasticsear...

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