Re: one large index vs many small indexes

2015-11-11 Thread Alessandro Benedetti
I would add an additional consideration. Are we aggregating any of the results ? Is any use case where we aggregate the results from different Indexes into one response? In the case we would need to calculate the aggregation overload. This means that if the Index is not that big, sometimes is bett

Re: one large index vs many small indexes

2015-11-11 Thread Toke Eskildsen
Lutz Fechner wrote: > separated index will allow you split IO load over multiple > physical drives as well as use different Analyzers (if your > customers are having different content that will make sense). Other ways to get better IO is RAID, SSD or RAM. Multiple indexes makes a lot of sense fr

RE: one large index vs many small indexes

2015-11-11 Thread Lutz Fechner
: Mittwoch, 11. November 2015 10:23 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: one large index vs many small indexes Hi, many small indexes seem more reasonable and much more efficient than one common large index for all customers. I recommend a very good book Lucene in Action - just reading a

Re: one large index vs many small indexes

2015-11-11 Thread Michael Wilkowski
Hi, many small indexes seem more reasonable and much more efficient than one common large index for all customers. I recommend a very good book Lucene in Action - just reading a first few chapters (indexing & searching) will give you a very good idea about Lucene internals, index structure and why

one large index vs many small indexes

2015-11-11 Thread Sascha Janz
hello, we must make a design decision for our system. we have many customers wich all should use the same server. now we are thinking about to make a separate lucene index for each customer, or to make one large index and use a filter for each customer. any suggestions, comments or expierences