I'd say that you're right in that Solr is the only viable alternative. Which, from my point of view, is actually quite thrilling since I feel much more at home with Solr. That said, I find it just a little bit annoying how often it seems that something that happens outside your core of work forces you to do a lot of extra work. I've yet to encounter an ILS with enough records to need clustering. Our discovery interface uses Solr with a 6-shard SolrCloud instance, but then it's 80+ million records. So I believe this won't be an issue. Solr also support sharding without SolrCloud, but it's still somewhat complex and not automatic like with ES. Though I read somewhere that ES is also moving to default to a single shard. While both are Lucene-based, they're quite different. Or rather, the approaches they take are quite different. ES to me feels more like "make it easy to get started, but beware, there will be obstacles", while Solr is more like "here's what you need to consider before getting started, and it may feel daunting, but you'll be much more informed in the long run". Luckily, I think that with Koha the largest amount of work with ES has been in getting to the point where it's not assuming Zebra everywhere. This would make the task of introducing Solr much more reasonable. --Ere dcook@prosentient.com.au kirjoitti 18.1.2021 klo 3.08:
I wonder that too. In the past, Solr didn't have cluster options, but it seems like it might have SolrCloud now for that? I think it uses Apache ZooKeeper which adds overhead and complexity. Elasticsearch's clustering is a lot more self-contained if I recall correctly. But then clustering would only be needed for more advanced implementations...
But Solr is probably the only viable alternative to Elasticsearch at this point?
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-----Original Message----- From: Koha-devel <koha-devel-bounces@lists.koha-community.org> On Behalf Of Joonas Kylmälä Sent: Friday, 15 January 2021 9:07 PM To: koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Elasticsearch changing licences
Ḧi,
yeah, just heard about this. We might want to start looking into some community developed solution, maybe solr?
Joonas
On 15/01/2021 07:22, dcook@prosentient.com.au wrote:
Hi all,
Have folk heard that Elastic is changing the Elasticsearch licence?
Depending on your sources and your beliefs, this may or may not matter, but certainly something to be aware of.
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