There's no real best practice here at this stage. But if you think about traditional datastores (ie DBs), would you mix these data sets?
On 22 March 2015 at 13:34, Nick Malcolm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We have a cluster set up already for indexing customer documents (bigger > documents, medium traffic). We want to add event logging (small documents, > lots of traffic). > *Should we do this on a new cluster?* > > - When do you typically create a separate cluster vs. add indexes to a > cluster? > - Is it straightforward to move indices to a new cluster at a later > date? > > > Reasons I can think of for using the same cluster: > > - Fewer servers to administer > - ES is already well equipped to handle multiple indices with various > mappings > - Simple searching across event & document indices, if needed > - If we were planning to add new servers for an events cluster, why > not have them in the same cluster for more redundancy > > Reasons I can think of for a new, separate, cluster: > > - The cluster can be tuned to the relevant performance needs > - Don't have to worry about the flood of events using up all the > disk space > - Separation of responsibility / "single responsibility" design pattern > - If one cluster goes down / hits performance problems, the other can > continue along fine > > > > I couldn't see any blog posts or documentation around best practice for > this, so your insight would be most welcome! > > Cheers, > Nick > > -- > 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/ebb7afb0-9efb-45b1-b6e7-dba67bb52d1b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/ebb7afb0-9efb-45b1-b6e7-dba67bb52d1b%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/CAEYi1X8gwqsNKvKnUirEBabwiGwfZ3Q6HsikFJQWg0wEL%3DJ2fA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
