On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Ertio Lew <ertio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Solr's data is stored on the file system as a set of index files[ > http://stackoverflow.com/a/7685579/530153]. Then why do we need anything > like Solandra or DataStax Enterprise Search? Isn't Solr complete solution > in itself ? What do we need to integrate with Cassandra ? > Solr's index sitting on a single machine, even if that single machine can vertically scale, is a single point of failure. The value add of DES is that the index has the same availability characteristics as the underlying data, because it is stored in the same cluster. =Rob
