Just FYI, barring differences in the low-level segments, for all intents and purposes, a primary shard and a corresponding replica shard should be the same in terms of query performance.
Jorge is correct, you can think of shards as a horizontal content/resource scaling unit. And replicas as a horizontal query performance and redundancy scaling unit. On Monday, February 10, 2014 11:01:01 AM UTC-5, Valentin wrote: > > Thanks. The split brain problem aside: Is it faster for elasticsearch to > read a shard than a replica? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/d49b4187-bcb7-4816-a249-38bf9bc1105d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
