I want to do some planning around how much cache memory it will take to facet over potentially a lot of records (millions, eventually billions). These are mainly date histograms and term facets. So, I have a few questions. Is it correct to say that running a facet on a field causes every shard …

Estimating field cache size for facets in advance

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Estimating field cache size for facets in advance