Field count v. performance

Thanks again, Christian.

I can appreciate the hedging given the complexity of ES and variety of configurations out there.

I think what we're saying here is, for indexing performance, all things equal, document size matters more than field count, probably by a large margin.

Just how much margin is a question. The best way to know for your particular situation is to benchmark, varying the factors you're comparing.

I might start by testing one hundred tokens in one field versus one hundred tokens spread across 100 fields.

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