Hello! I'm pretty new to Solr and installed it in standalone mode. I notice that in SolrCloud mode, the server exposes a different set of APIs that seem to allow for creating search indexes in a much less painful way than manually creating cores with configuration files.
I'm specifically looking at using Solr in an environment where an application will fairly frequently need to create and discard search indexes programmatically (with different and evolving schemas). It seems like I can only do this without pain by using Solr in SolrCloud mode, even though I don't forsee ever needing to run a multi-node cluster given the small scale of this application. >From what I can see from the documentation (and not least of which from the fact that the very first tutorial has you start Solr in SolrCloud mode), it feels like SolrCloud mode is the "preferred" way to run Solr. Is there really any good reason to _not_ use SolrCloud mode all of the time? Ignoring all of the clustering and scaling, it seems like it just makes Solr a bit more pleasant to work with programmatically. -- Mark Raynsford | https://www.io7m.com
