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Zero downtime index upgrade in Apache Solr

Talkat Berlin Buzzwords 2026 · 2026-06-07..06-09· [databases]
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Apache Solr now offers a zero-downtime in-place upgrade path (coming in 9.11 with Lucene changes exposed in 10.1/10.4) that converts older segments by reindexing them one segment at a time using a latest version merge policy, so work is proportional to only the old segments and auxiliary disk is roughly one segment. The core-admin API runs asynchronously, accepts writes during upgrade, requires fields to be stored or docValues (or copy-field targets), and the cloud API is in progress; design proves feasible on multi‑TB, billion‑document clusters.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:25Problem and solution overview
  3. 10:42Upgrade Index API details
  4. 20:50Zero downtime upgrade process
  5. 23:02Implications for Lucene ecosystem
  6. 24:51Q&A session
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