Could these just be different collections? Then sharding and replication is independent. And you can reduce replication factor as the index ages.
Otis Solr & ElasticSearch Support http://sematext.com/ On May 9, 2013 1:43 AM, "Steven Bower" <smb-apa...@alcyon.net> wrote: > Is it currently possible to have per-shard replication factor? > > A bit of background on the use case... > > If you are hashing content to shards by a known factor (lets say date > ranges, 12 shards, 1 per month) it might be the case that most of your > search traffic would be directed to one particular shard (eg. the current > month shard) and having increased query capacity in that shard would be > useful... this could be extended to many use cases such as data hashed by > organization, type, etc. > > Thanks, > > steve >
