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Jayant Kumar
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Jayant Kumar

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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Using SolrCloud as a NoSQL database


There is a huge market for NoSQL databases, each having its own strength and weakness. Several factors need consideration during the selection of a NoSQL database, namely performance, scalability, security, and ease of development. RDBMS is good but has limitations in terms of scaling to billions of records. Horizontal scaling is a challenge in most RDBMSs.

Search, which was earlier a complex process, is now easy to use and scale. With horizontal scalability, search has also become affordable. NoSQL databases can be key-value, column oriented, document oriented and graph database. The key factors that are used to make a decision regarding the NoSQL database are as follows:

  • Data model: Refers to how data is stored and accessed or whether the NoSQL database is key-value, document oriented, or column oriented.

  • Distribution model: Refers to how data is distributed across the cluster to address horizontal scalability. It considers sharding and replication features...

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Jayant Kumar

Jayant Kumar is an experienced software professional with a bachelor of engineering degree in computer science and more than 14 years of experience in architecting and developing large-scale web applications. Jayant is an expert on search technologies and PHP and has been working with Lucene and Solr for more than 11 years now. He is the key person responsible for introducing Lucene as a search engine on www.naukri.com, the most successful job portal in India. Jayant is also the author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, Packt Publishing, which has been very successful. Jayant has played many different important roles throughout his career, including software developer, team leader, project manager, and architect, but his primary focus has been on building scalable solutions on the Web. Currently, he is associated with the digital division of HT Media as the chief architect responsible for the job site www.shine.com. Jayant is an avid blogger and his blog can be visited at http://jayant7k.blogspot.in. His LinkedIn profile is available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jayantkumar.
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