Data Size and Shard Limits

geena.rollins · April 18, 2022, 8:32pm

What is the maxium recommended data size per shard?
What is the maxium recommended number of shards per cluster?

RabBit_BR · April 18, 2022, 11:30pm

Hi @geena.rollins
Read this doc please:

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