[Building Sakai] SOLR vs Elastic Search

[John Bush]

Right, so I think its on oxford then, if you guys have this done
submit a patch and reopen the ticket, which is what I understood Aaron
to be saying as well.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:
> Well it didn't appear from the ticket there was any code actually available
> for the proxy mechanism to work (to switch implementations). It sounded more
> like the ticket was asking for "someone else" to create that mechanism. As
> Aaron said, if there's a patch, please re-open.
>
> I don't see anyone other than Oxford providing a patch unless they really
> want SOLR and don't want to do the work to manually include it? (Unless
> there really is a patch and I'm just not seeing it)
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:59 AM, John Bush <john.bush at rsmart.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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