Solr 5 Preview with Anshum Gupta and Tim Potter
Description:
Solr committers Anshum Gupta and Tim Potter tell us about the upcoming Solr 5 release. We discuss making Solr “easy to start, easy to finish” while continuing to add improvements and stability for experienced users. Hear more about SolrCloud hardening, clusterstate improvements, the schema and solrconfig APIs, easier ZooKeeper management, improved flexible and schemaless indexing, and overall ease-of-use improvements.
Some notes:
Focus in Solr 5 development has been on ease of use. Directory layout of Solr install has been changed. 5.0 gets rid of the war file. Stand alone application. Don’t have to add parts to it. Don’t need Tomcat. Distributed IDF management. (Documents used to score differently based on shard where they reside. Not so in 5.0 (SOLR-1632)) API access to config files. Not schema-less so much but smarter about doing reasonable things by default.
The one missing question?
What is the anticipated release date for Solr 5?
I did look at the roadmap for 5.0, “No release date.” As of today, 228 of 313 issues have been resolved.
Here’s an open issue that may interest some of you: Create a shippable tutorial integrated with running Solr instance. That’s SOLR-6808 for those following in your hymn books.
Enjoy!
Update: Solr 5 is targeted for late January 2015! Hot damn!