Thanks Mark. I know we can scale the reads by adding more replicas. Also the issue with nodes containing a lot of shards can be fixed using index shard allocation.
I mainly wanted to see if there are any other "undocumented" gotchas.
On Jul 8, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Mark Walkom markw@campaignmonitor.com wrote:
Writes and reads 
You may also end up with some nodes holding more, smaller shards than others, which will mean uneven load.
If you have potential for many small indexes, check out routing as an alternative.
Regards,
Mark Walkom
Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: markw@campaignmonitor.com
web: www.campaignmonitor.com
On 9 July 2014 12:16, Drew Kutcharian drew@venarc.com wrote:
Hi All,
We are thinking of using two shards per index + 1 replica to keep the number of shards low for some indices. Are there any gotchas with using 2 shards per index besides that at most we can scale the writes to this index to two machines?
Thanks,
Drew
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