Eric, There are ways to access the lucene index directly via Java clients (maybe others too), as outlined here https://knackforge.com/blog/selvam/solr-5-reading-indexed-data-lightening-speed or https://stackoverflow.com/a/17855667/744216 Chad On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 1:30 PM Esmé Cowles <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Eric- > > I don't think so — but you could copy the index locally (or propagate a > snapshot) and run a local Solr server to query the index. > > -Esmé > > > On May 16, 2019, at 1:25 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > Is it possible to create a Solr index, copy the file(s) to my local > machine, and query the index sans the Solr server? > > > > SQLite works like that. There is no server. I can use SQLite to create a > file, copy the file to a different computer (even a different operating > system), and use a SQLite client on the different machine. In fact, there > are bunches o' API's I can use to query the SQLite file. > > > > Solr is a great indexer, IMHO, but if I were able to copy the index file > locally, and query it without the server, then I think Solr would be even > greater. > > > > Do y'all know. Is such a thing possible? > > > > -- > > Eric Morgan >