For the datasize you are proposing , single index should be fine .Just
give the m/c enough RAM

Distributed search involves multiple requests made between shards
which may be an unncessary overhead.
--Noble

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Ritesh Ambastha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Noble,
>
> I maintain two separate indexes on my disk for two different search
> services.
> The index size of two are: 91MB and 615MB. I am pretty sure that these index
> size will grow in future, and may reach 10GB.
>
> My doubts :
>
> 1. When should I start partitioning my index?
> 2. Is there any performance issue with partitioning? For eg: A query on 1GB
> and 500MB indexed data will take same time to give the result? Or lesser the
> index size, lesser the response time?
>
>
> Regards,
> Ritesh Ambastha
>
> Noble Paul നോബിള്‍ नोब्ळ् wrote:
>>
>> You could have been more specific on the dataset size.
>>
>> If your data volumes are growing you can partition your index into
>> multiple shards.
>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/DistributedSearch
>> --Noble
>>
>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Ritesh Ambastha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Readers,
>>>
>>> I am a newbie in solr world. I have successfully deployed solr on my
>>> machine, and I am able to index a large DB table. I am pretty sure that
>>> internal index structure of solr is much capable to handle large data
>>> sets.
>>>
>>> But, say my data size keeps growing at jet speed, then what should be the
>>> index structure? Do I need to follow some specific index structuring
>>> patterns/algos for handling such massive data?
>>>
>>> I am sorry as I may be sounding novice in this area. I would appreciate
>>> your
>>> thoughts/suggestions.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ritesh Ambastha
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --Noble Paul
>>
>>
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