Using Solr search index as a database - is this “wrong”?

Question

My team is working with a third party CMS that uses Solr as a search index. I\'ve noticed that it seems like the authors are using Solr as a database of sorts in that each

Answer 1

I've seen similar things done because it allows for very fast lookup. We're moving data out of our Lucene indexes into a fast key-value store to follow DRY principles and also decrease the size of the index. There's not a hard-and-fast rule for this sort of thing.