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How can I save Transfer Bandwidth?

Here are a few ways to save your Monthy alloted Bandwidth:

  1. Using local caching, such as memcache, can greatly reduce the actual requests to make to our solr servers, thus saving you bandwidth
  2.  Since the allocated Bandwidth is PER INDEX, you could setup Solr Replication and setup your local application to perform round-robin requests in all of your replicas. This way, the bandwidth is saved by ballancing it between the ressources of multiple indexes. For example, if your account has 1 Gb PER INDEX, you will create Index A and replicate it onto Index B, and make requests in both of those in a round-robin fashion, thus gaining 2 Gb total of bandwidth for your index.
  3. Make sure your solr queries will return as little data as possible. For example use the rows or fl parameters for the solr /select requests, to only return the records and the fields you really need. Any other data the gets returned will be counted as extra bandwidth.

How can I save disk space for my index?

There are a couple things you might be able to do to trade performance for index size. For example, an integer (int) field uses less space than a trie integer (tint), but range queries will be slower when using an int.

To make major reductions in your index, you will almost certainly need to look more closely at the fields you are using.

  • Are you using a lot of stored fields? If so, try removing the stored fields from the index and query your database for the necessary data once you've got the results back from Solr.
  • Add omitNorms="true" to text fields that don't need length normalization
  • Add omitPositions="true" to text fields that don't require phrase matching
  • Special fields, like NGrams, can take up a lot of space
  • Are you removing stop words from text fields?