[Building Sakai] SOLR vs Elastic Search

[John Bush]

All we are talking about here is really just a spring proxy mechanism
to select the search impl right?  Seems to me that is pretty
straightforward, and I think oxford has already done it.  It makes
sense to me to just get that committed.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Zhen Qian <zqian at umich.edu> wrote:
> Hi, Adam:
>
> I agree with your point of having shim layer on top of underlying different
> search implementations. Elastic search is in svn now, can Oxford checkin
> solr code as well?
>
> Meanwhile, do people think it is worthwhile to start a confluence page to
> document feature/setup/cost/performance details of solr vs elastic search
> implementations, which would serve as a guide to the community?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Zhen
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> May I ask why https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SRCH-99 has been
>> closed?  This shim was to allow institutions to choose which underlying
>> search technology they want to run: either solr or elastic search
>>
>> We have been running SOLR in production at Oxford for months now and are
>> poised to commit the code back.
>>
>> After lots of development and moths of non-problematic use, the community
>> should at least be at liberty to evaluate Elastic Search implementations
>> against SOLR search and then come to a decision as to whether just one
>> should be used or whether institutions will be allowed to make a choice as
>> to which way they want to go.
>>
>> adam
>>
>> --
>> Dr A C Marshall, WebLearn Service Manager, IT Services, University of
>> Oxford.
>>
>>
>>
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