ES6.0 typeless strucutre help

[Amit_Ripshtos]

Hey guys,
Currently, I have an index-per-day - and the index stores about 3 different types.
I strucutred them like this:
{
"type": "my_type",
"my_type": {...}
}

Now, we can see ES6 and ES7 wants us to move to typeless, which means I will have 3 indices per day.
However, as I aware of - having too much shards will make my searches slower.

So can you guys help me understand if having index-per-type is a good thing or not ? I will a lot more indices and a lot more of shards eventually.

Thanks!

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

We are removing _type, you can still have your own "type" field like you have.
You just need to make sure you don't have mapping collisions.

[Amit_Ripshtos]

Thanks for the comment.
So you recommand us still have multiple data-types in same index for having less shards, just without the "_type" thing?

I wanna get ready for ES7.0 now

[warkolm (Mark Walkom)]

No I am not recommending that, I am just saying what you can potentially do.

The other option is to have more indices with less shards, and to use weekly/monthly indices for smaller datasets.