# Reasonable number of indices

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reasonable-number-of-indices/4736>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 30, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reasonable-number-of-indices/4736 "2011-06-30T00:33:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Marty1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@Marty1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marty1)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reasonable-number-of-indices/4736/1 "2011-06-30T00:33:37Z")

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This may be oversimplified, but we have about 50M docs and a query  
rate of 75 queries/second. What is a seemingly reasonable number of  
indexes to have? Right now I have 6 -- timestamp, primary  
description, secondary description, score0, score1, score2.  
Score[012] are intended to bias searches.

Is this too many?

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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 6, 2017, 4:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reasonable-number-of-indices/4736/2 "2017-07-06T04:02:15Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:02am UTC