Re: Solr DataImportHandler (DIH) and Cassandra

[David Stuart <da...@progressivealliance.co.uk>]

This is good timing I am/was just to embark on a spike if anyone is keen to help out


On 30 Nov 2010, at 00:37, Mark wrote:

> The DataSource subclass route is what I will probably be interested in. Are there are working examples of this already out there?
> 
> On 11/29/10 12:32 PM, Aaron Morton wrote:
>> AFAIK there is nothing pre-written to pull the data out for you.
>> 
>> You should be able to create your DataSource sub class http://lucene.apache.org/solr/api/org/apache/solr/handler/dataimport/DataSource.html Using the Hector java library to pull data from Cassandra.
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>> I'm guessing you will need to consider how to perform delta imports. Perhaps using the secondary indexes in 0.7* , or maintaining your own queues or indexes to know what has changed.
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>> There is also the Lucandra project, not exactly what your after but may be of interest anyway https://github.com/tjake/Lucandra
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>> Hope that helps.
>> Aaron
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>> On 30 Nov, 2010,at 05:04 AM, Mark <st...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Is there anyway to use DIH to import from Cassandra? Thanks