Saturday, March 28, 2015

On Second(ary) Thought...

Recently I posted my thoughts regarding the proper ratio of Solr cores to Sitecore indexes. In it, I mentioned the need to double the number of cores to support the SwitchOnRebuildSolrSearchIndex feature. It turns out, this isn't quite right. Creating a secondary core for the analytics index does no good and should be avoided.

You'll want to avoid a secondary core for the analytics index because trying to use one results in exception. The analytics index has an extra "group" parameter, and Sitecore cannot find a matching constructor. The SolrSearchIndex class allows for the group parameter but the SwitchOnRebuildSolrSearchIndex does not.

Why is this? As Adam Conn explains, the types of crawlers responsible for maintaining the analytics index are observers of data. This means that the crawler is notified when data is available and then passed that data. Therefore, rebuilding the analytics index would result in an empty index unless you rebuild the reporting database so that the analytics crawlers may observe (and index) the data. This is the reason why the UI doesn't provide the option of rebuilding the analytics index.

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