This entirely depends on your data structure, volume and cluster sizing. Hundreds works, thousands should be ok if you have a lot of nodes, tens of thousands is even more nodes.
Aliases will also affect your requirements. Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 9 October 2014 00:19, kmoore.cce <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand this may depend on a lot of factors, but I am curious on what > is an efficient number of indexes for a large data set. > > I would like to break up indexes by user and by date (I think) mostly > because it will make data management easier on my end. > > I am wondering when Elasticsearch will have issues with the number of > indexes. For example is 10 a good number? 100? 1000? 10000? etc. > > I would like to break up the indexes as much as possible and make use of > aliases for searching the data of interest, but I don't want to create so > many indexes that it will have an adverse affect on performance. > > I would appreciate any insight into what is recommended and what others > have experienced. > > Thanks in advance. > > -Kevin > > -- > 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/71c384b4-0dc8-4c98-8ef2-5b00872754e7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/71c384b4-0dc8-4c98-8ef2-5b00872754e7%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/CAEM624YFYFcFYUpMzVJd_PrHTeHpL2VE3VbNjnaLcQKzcVhyrA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
