Hello, I read in one of the posts that splitting up the index into more shards, generally improves indexing performance. Is this because all shards of the index are read at the same time simultaneously when doing a search? #2, So if I have 4 nodes (node1, 2 3 and 4) and 1 index with 4 shards, 0 …

Data Locality and Sharded Indexes

Tony_Chong (Tony Chong) August 9, 2011, 5:56pm 3

Thanks Shay. Exactly the information I was looking for!

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