[Building Sakai] SOLR vs Elastic Search

Adam Marshall adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk
Wed Feb 27 08:35:00 PST 2013


So why was https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SRCH-99 closed with a won't fix?

adam

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bush [mailto:john.bush at rsmart.com] 
Sent: 27 February 2013 15:59
To: Zhen Qian
Cc: Adam Marshall; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] SOLR vs Elastic Search

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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