They won't be exact, but should be close. Are you seeing some *big* differences?
Otis -- Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Furkan KAMACI <furkankam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it possible that different shards have different number of documents or > does SolrCloud balance them? > > I ask this question because I want to learn the mechanism behind how Solr > calculete hash value of the identifier of the document. Is it possible that > hash function produces more documents into one of the shards other than any > of shards. (because this may cause a bottleneck at some leaders of > SolrCloud)