Re: [bailey-developers] lattice master

[Yonik S. <yo...@ap...>]

On Feb 8, 2008 6:37 PM, Doug Cutting <cu...@ap...> wrote:
> It would be good to have a system that supports online updates, so that
> we can support the widest variety of users.  We don't want to force Solr
> to reinvent things to become scalable.
>
> That said, there will be some compromises.  The compromise I'm proposing
> is that we permit conflicting changes in some situations (i.e., network
> partitioning) and that we silently resolve those conflicts in a
> predictable way.  This isn't perfect, but I don't see another way to
> both meet the scalability and reliability goals and to support online
> updates.  We can hopefully structure things so that conflicts are rare,
> but when they occur, some kinds of updates may be lost.
>
> Do others think this is a reasonable starting point for a design?

+1

-Yonik