Collection distribution scripts

Most of the time, automation of the tasks proves to be a boon to development. As far as Solr development is concerned, it is actually good to think of and implement automation at your end. Solr provides a set of automation scripts which makes your life much easier in terms of managing Solr. We will first understand the basic architecture with Solr and then dive into Solr's distribution scripts.

The very basic architecture for a Solr based application constitutes of just a single application server. For instance, if you develop in Java, you can even have both Solr and your web application served by a single Web application server. Sounds good! Now we will think a bit differently in terms of its architecture which is more common and equally effective. Let us now involve a dedicated indexing server (termed as indexer) and one or more slave index servers. The idea behind this is to separate all index building activities from normal queries. You may also co-relate...