[SOLR-1044] Use Hadoop RPC for inter Solr communication

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: search
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Noble Paul
• Created: 02/Mar/09 07:30
• Updated: 16/Mar/13 19:02
• Resolved: 16/Mar/13 19:02

Description

Solr uses http for distributed search . We can make it a whole lot faster if we use an RPC mechanism which is more lightweight/efficient.
Hadoop RPC looks like a good candidate for this.

The implementation should just have one protocol. It should follow the Solr's idiom of making remote calls . A uri + params +[optional stream(s)] . The response can be a stream of bytes.

To make this work we must make the SolrServer implementation pluggable in distributed search. Users should be able to choose between the current CommonshttpSolrServer, or a HadoopRpcSolrServer .