We have a scenario where we have data from multiple clients.
some figures to note:
No of clients - 100
Data/client - 10GB (avg)
With the above data, what should be our Indexing strategy?
We know that we will need to increase the shard count if we go with 1 index solution as data grows, which is not a straightforward process and needs re-indexing. is this reason enough to ignore the single index strategy?
But as we mentioned data per client is going to be ~10GB only, which is a bit low from the recommended shard size(30GB), so can we still go with a multiple index(index/client) strategy?
Prons/ Cons we are aware of:
- Shard level scaling would be a challenge on a single index(not sure how much) whereas we will have pre-calculated shards for each index in a multi-indexing strategy.
- Searching will be impacted as distribution will happen across all the primary shards and huge data in a single index whereas Searching will be optimized in multiple indexing.
Thanks