Those individual files are scalar indexes: element-value, geospatial, etc. All 
the default indexing goes into the hash-based universal index, which is even 
more opaque.

-- Mike

On 24 Jan 2014, at 14:13 , Geert J. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ravinder,
>  
> The forest files in the MarkLogic data directory have a direct relation to 
> the indexes, so you could also simply look there. Most notably the ones with 
> a hash at the beginning of their name. You can read the type directly from 
> the filenames. Guessing which file belongs to which index is harder. There is 
> a kind of logic, but that goes beyond my comprehension. Maybe someone from 
> inside MarkLogic would be willing to reveal some details about this?
>  
> Cheers,
> Geert
>  
> Van: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] NamensDanny Sokolsky
> Verzonden: vrijdag 24 januari 2014 22:13
> Aan: MarkLogic Developer Discussion
> Onderwerp: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Size of an index
>  
> You can look at the size of the database, either in the database status page 
> or using xdmp:forest-status and/or xdmp:forest-counts for each forest in the 
> database.   If you add an index or change index settings for a database, you 
> can compare the sizes before and after (although merges will make the size 
> somewhat variable).
>  
> -Danny
>  
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RAVINDER MAAN
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 11:41 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Size of an index
>  
> Hi all
> Is threre any way to find the size of an index on disk?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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