Number of indexes vs index size

Does that sound reasonable? As I said, I'm really trying to understand
what the nature of the tradeoff between index size and quantity of
indexes is.

That does sound reasonable. Also, check out kimchy's talk at Berlin
Buzzwords a month ago - he talks about scaling strategies:

Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic

Thanks for the feedback, Clint - good to know I'm at least in the right ballpark!

I shall don the headphones forthwith.

Cheers,
Dan

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