# Estimating minimum memory requirement for my dataset

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estimating-minimum-memory-requirement-for-my-dataset/40613>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 1, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estimating-minimum-memory-requirement-for-my-dataset/40613 "2016-02-01T07:50:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![renzokuken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@renzokuken](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/renzokuken)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2016, 7:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estimating-minimum-memory-requirement-for-my-dataset/40613/1 "2016-02-01T07:50:19Z")

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Hello.

I have an online store with ~3000 products with 4-8 specs to each one of them (eg. "weight", "size"). I want to use Elasticsearch in order to provide faceted navigation to my users (eg. combine filters to narrow down the results). So I'll have a single index with the IDs and the specs of each product.

I don't think I'll need full-text search yet.

Can you recommend on what is the _minimum_ memory required for such a use-case?

Thanks in advance!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estimating-minimum-memory-requirement-for-my-dataset/40613/2 "2016-02-02T22:18:24Z")

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As a rule, I wouldn't recommend less than 4GB per node when in production.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/estimating-minimum-memory-requirement-for-my-dataset/40613/3 "2017-07-05T23:19:26Z")

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