SolrCloud similar to most of the distributed systems is designed with some rules in mind. There are also rules that each distributed system is subject to. For example the CAP theorem tells that a system can’t achieve availability, data consistency and network partition split tolerance at the same time – you can have two out of three at most. Of course, in this blog entry, we will not be discussing principles of the distributed systems, but we will focus on write and read tolerance in SolrCloud.
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