Appreciate your input Mark. So my understanding was correct, that on a single node (without cluster) having single shard per index will work almost the same as having default 5 shards per index.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Mark Walkom <[email protected]> wrote: > Not unless you are creating a *lot* of indies on that node, remember that > a shard is a lucene instance and take up a certain amount of resources. > > Generally it's a good idea to create multiple shards if you expect to add > more nodes, that way it's easier to spread the data across the new nodes > without having to reindex. But for dev purposes on a single node, having a > single shard index is fine. > > On 24 February 2015 at 08:05, Sagar Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> Will it matter configuring some 'x' number of shards per index, if I am >> using single instance/node of elastic search. >> I have a single box that has elastic search instance on it (no cluster). >> Will it have any implications, when using default 5 (or maybe just 1) >> shards per index? >> Creating an index with more number of shards without a cluster or more >> node will help in anyway in terms of performance or scalability? >> >> Please advise. >> Appreciate your inputs! >> >> Regards, >> Sagar Shah >> >> -- >> 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/b20c463f-eb85-4d02-827b-117c1bbe33f8%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b20c463f-eb85-4d02-827b-117c1bbe33f8%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 a topic in the > Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/elasticsearch/n8_c8RHuLxQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8koyzAeckxb9NDWSjzf7g73qmQKtWsgaAoEJQiYwJbVA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEYi1X8koyzAeckxb9NDWSjzf7g73qmQKtWsgaAoEJQiYwJbVA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Regards, Sagar Shah Too many people think more of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death!!! -- 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/CANZnv5iSoZbf5a-Ag%2BP-e4%3DXnJZg2CJ5BQEXsKcFbLhCcqRNgg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
