Multiple Indices vs Multiple Shards

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Hi,

What is the difference in performance or additional load on ElasticSearch
if I define an index with 50 shards or I define 50 indices with one shard.

I mean, technically, there are blogs that suggest that these are
equivalent? Of course without the shard rebalancing, replica, failover, etc.

But, performance-wise, if I am to do 50 indices with one shard, and
aggregate results from all 50, will I see a degradation in performance
compared to 1 index with 50 shards?

Thanks,
Sandeep

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Very little as you have found.
But you might find aggregating will take a fair bit of resources.

Regards,
Mark Walkom

Infrastructure Engineer
Campaign Monitor
email: markw@campaignmonitor.com
web: www.campaignmonitor.com

On 21 August 2014 18:34, 'Sandeep Ramesh Khanzode' via elasticsearch <
elasticsearch@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi,

What is the difference in performance or additional load on Elasticsearch
if I define an index with 50 shards or I define 50 indices with one shard.

I mean, technically, there are blogs that suggest that these are
equivalent? Of course without the shard rebalancing, replica, failover, etc.

But, performance-wise, if I am to do 50 indices with one shard, and
aggregate results from all 50, will I see a degradation in performance
compared to 1 index with 50 shards?

Thanks,
Sandeep

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