Yes, certainly, though the effort involved in supporting it is quite big
(its quite complex when putting search engine into the picture, compared
with the very simple models like dynamo, for example).
But, most cases you won't necessarily need it because of the "multi-index"
support elasticsearch provides. For example, lets take a twitter example. We
can decide to create an index per user, or create an index per day. The
ability to perform all operations in elasticsearch across more than one
index is intentional to support that.
This gives you added benefit. For example, if you have an index per user in
the twitter example, you can search on your friends and their friends (and
score differently based on the relationship you have with them) quite
easily.
-shay.banon
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Bruno Dumon bruno@outerthought.org wrote:
Hi,
Do you have any plans or thoughts on allowing to change
(increase/decrease) the number of shards and replicas of an existing
index? It seems like currently these can only be specified at index
creation time.--
Bruno Dumon
Outerthought
http://outerthought.org/