Re: Regarding multiple index creation and Searching

2011-08-17 Thread Mihai Caraman
heard that ~80million docs per index (varying with average document size). @Uwe Schindler: Is hashed distribution really necessary when using MultiReader? I did hear that solr uses continuous hashing algorithm with shards of indexes. But MultiReader didn't say anything about hashing.

RE: Regarding multiple index creation and Searching

2011-08-15 Thread Uwe Schindler
Hi, This all depends on your index contents and hardware. In general the size of a single index / index segment vs multiple segments / indexes is not an issue on one single machine. To scale, you should also think of using more than one machine with e.g. ElasticSearch or Apache Solr instead of pla