FederatedSearch - Solr Wiki

Federated Search Design

This page has been moved to the more appropriately named DistributedSearch page.

" Federated search" is the term more typically used when searching across heterogeneous data sources - think about things like meta-search engines, as a common example of this.

Distributed search is when you have a homogeneous data source, but it needs to be distributed in order to scale properly.