This article documents several changes with the clustering feature that will take effect in Liferay Portal CE 7.0 and Digital Experience Platform 7.0. In addition, this article details changes that may affect Community Edition users.
Resolution
General
- The default search indexing framework is Elastic Search in Liferay DXP 7.0 and Portal 7.0 CE.
- Embedded Elasticsearch is not supported, it is only provided for demo purposes.
- Standalone search engine, Solr, is still available in Liferay DXP 7.0 and Portal 7.0 CE.
- Storing indexes locally with Lucene has been removed.
- We will continue to support Lucene in previous versions of our products.
- For DXP, Solr and Elasticsearch will be the supported search engines.
- Ehcache JGroups and RMI cache replication support were removed prior to Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA5, but have been restored in this version onward.
Summary of EE/CE Changes
The clustering module is available for Enterprise Subscriptions to Liferay DXP 7.0 and only Portal 7.0 CE GA5 onwards.
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CE |
EE |
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Cluster Module |
✓ |
✓ |
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Ehcache RMI Cache Replication |
✓ |
✓ |
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Ehcache JGroups Cache Replication |
✓ |
✓ |
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Ehcache ClusterLink Cache Replication |
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✓ |
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Lucene Index Sharing |
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Elasticsearch |
✓ |
✓ |
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Solr |
✓ |
✓ |