Nicole, According to our findings, there is also a limit for the number of shards depending on the volume of the returned data. See this jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4903 Dmitry On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Nicole Lacoste <niki.laco...@gmail.com>wrote: > Oh found the answer myself. Its the GET methods URL length that limits the > number of shards. > > Niki > > > On 25 July 2013 10:14, Nicole Lacoste <niki.laco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is there a limit on the number of shards? > > > > Niki > > > > > > On 24 July 2013 01:14, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > > > >> 2.1 billion documents (including deleted documents) per Lucene index, > but > >> essentially per Solr shard as well. > >> > >> But don’t even think about going that high. In fact, don't plan on going > >> above 100 million unless you do a proof of concept that validates that > you > >> get acceptable query and update performance . There is no hard limit > >> besides that 2.1 billion Lucene limit, but... performance will vary. > >> > >> -- Jack Krupansky > >> > >> -----Original Message----- From: Ali, Saqib > >> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 6:18 PM > >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > >> Subject: maximum number of documents per shard? > >> > >> still 2.1 billion documents? > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > * <https://twitter.com/#!/niki_in_france>* > > > > > > -- > * <https://twitter.com/#!/niki_in_france>* >
