1. No more than 100 million documents per shard.
2. Number of replicas to meet your query load and to allow for the
possibility that a replica might go down. 2 or 3, maybe 4.
3. Proof of concept implementation to validate the number of documents that
will query well for a given number of documents
On 11/18/2015 9:02 PM, Troy Edwards wrote:
> I am looking for some good articles/guidance on how to determine number of
> shards and replicas for an index?
The long version:
https://lucidworks.com/blog/sizing-hardware-in-the-abstract-why-we-dont-have-a-definitive-answer/
The short version:
Ther
