You may use a single index with enough shards for users and use routing for accessing the shard where a user ID has the docs indexed. See also shard overallocation http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/overallocation.html and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/elasticsearch/49q-_AgQCp8/MRol0t9asEcJ
Jörg On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:46 AM, zehong yin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all > > Is there limitation how many indices could I create in ES cluster? and > Does the number of indices affect performance? > I have used DATE as indice for logs from MMO game servers. That give me > chance to remove old data. > > But right now, I'm considering use userid as indice, that means there > might be milliion users, as well as million indices created. > > > -- > 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/b2f0d724-f1b1-40b4-8457-318a195ebdd7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/b2f0d724-f1b1-40b4-8457-318a195ebdd7%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/CAKdsXoGN5ugQWN%3DW_Fs19_tsiGxw4uhwE_3Ye30_eCGFWJ%2BY9A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
