Search Topology in SharePoint
2013
SharePoint 2013 search has
been re-architected, and the goal of achieving a single enterprise search platform
has introduced a number of changes. You can consider SharePoint 2013 search to
be a combination of SharePoint 2010 search, FAST Search for SharePoint 2010,
and FAST technology.
The search components can
be categorized into five groups
Crawl and content —
Includes the crawl and content processing components and the crawl database
Analytics —
Includes the analytics processing component, and the links and analytics
reporting databases
Index —
Includes the index component, index partition, and index replica
Query —
Includes the query processing component
Administration —
Includes the administration component and the administration database
