Depends on your data and cluster configuration, but you probably don't want a single shard unless it's a tiny, tiny index.
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 3 April 2014 15:08, Subhadip Bagui <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks a lot Mark. That explains a lot. > > By backup I meant copy of same data. > > One last question, for fast searching what will be the better selection? > single index multiple shards or multiple index single shard? > > Can you please give some reference how lucene splits documents and store > in shards. That will help to get better idea. > > > Thanks, > Subhadip > > -- > 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/3785b01c-328f-4f4c-8dab-db93b73b2b5c%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/3785b01c-328f-4f4c-8dab-db93b73b2b5c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAEM624YK3iUQ7Gm4-nGtqyorz8F4U3GbJPwwAuOvft_WBrLktQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
