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bowen edited this page Aug 11, 2011
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Solandra embeds Solr in Cassandra. This means you get the benefits of Cassandra along with the benefits of Solr, no need to learn or build a new system to use Solandra. Current clients for Solr will work with Solandra.
In simple terms Cassandra is a peer-to-peer database. It is very good at distributing data across nodes for replication and scaling needs. Also, its data model is ideal for an inverted index. In fact Cassandra is used for inbox search at Facebook. By storing data directly in Cassandra and making it accessible through the Lucene/Solr api’s we gain two big benefits.
- Writes and Reads can be done from any node in the ring.
- Operational details like, replication, sharding, adding more hardware, failover, and caching are managed by Cassandra.
Solr is used as the transport and search layer for the cluster. As a result limitations are currently related to Solr's distributed search.