Unlike manual sharding, dynamic sharding does not require shards and instances to be distributed correctly over a known set of hosts. Query is resilient, with a configurable delay to instances coming and going. For manual sharding, all instances must be available on the expected host at the expected URL. While dynamic shard registration allows different numbers of instances for any shard, manual sharding does not.
solr.useDynamicShardRegistration=true
search.solrShardRegistry.purgeOnInit=true search.solrShardRegistry.shardInstanceTimeoutInSeconds=300 search.solrShardRegistry.maxAllowedReplicaTxCountDifference=1000
| Property | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| search.solrShardRegistry.purgeOnInit | If true, this property removes persisted shard state from the database when the subsystem starts. | true |
| search.solrShardRegistry.shardInstanceTimeoutInSeconds | Specifies that if a shard has not made a tracking request within this time, it will
not be used for query. Note: When tracking large change sets or rebuilding your indexes,
increase the shard timeout. For example, change the value of this property to 3200 or 7200
seconds.
|
300 seconds |
| search.solrShardRegistry.maxAllowedReplicaTxCountDifference | Specifies that if any shard is more than this number of transactions behind the leading instance, it will not be used. | 1000 transactions |
If there is more than one index for a store, the most up to date index (the one that has indexed most transactions) will be used. For each shard, an instance is chosen at random from all the shards that are actively tracking and within 1000 transactions of the lead instance.
- track the same store
- use the same template (and therefore, Solr schema)
- have the same number of shards
- use the same partitioning method with the same configuration, if any is required
- have the same setting to transform or ignore content
http://localhost:8080/solr4/admin/cores?action=newCore&storeRef=workspace://SpacesStore&numShards=10& numNodes=1&nodeInstance=1&property.data.dir.root=<ALFRESCO_HOME>/solr4/workspace-SpacesStore&shardIds=0,1,2,3,4
The status of all the available indexes, shards, and instances can be found using a JMX client. For more information, see Indexing information available in a JXM client.
Dynamic sharding will currently use partial indexes to answer queries. For example, there are two shards: Shard1 and Shard2. If there are no instances for Shard2, queries will only use Shard1.