If you want to use more than 1024 terms, you will hit the Lucene max clause limit.
Managing array is not a good idea with 10M+ items. You'd have to iterate it by yourself for appending/modifying which will take a very long time (and space). Maybe you find this interesting for your model design http://de.slideshare.net/martijnvg/document-relations Jörg On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:36 PM, <mich...@modernmast.com> wrote: > Hey guys. > > I'm curious to know what are the limitations of an array type field? I'm > using ES to store an array of social-network follower IDs for each of my > users, and this can sometimes get big (10M+ items). Is this "okay" with > arrays? Or should I be using something else like a nested type? My mapping > is as followers: > > "follower_ids": { > "type": "string", > "index_name": "follower_id", > "norms": { > "enabled": false > }, > "index": "no", > "index_options": "docs" > } > > Worth mentioning that I'm also using a "terms" path filter on this array > field. > > Your input/feedback is much appreciated! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8a5c2f5b-1292-409f-9196-be8f0a00282f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/8a5c2f5b-1292-409f-9196-be8f0a00282f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAKdsXoFaP71emRvd1tAPEeKTMBcuKvk_wCOTFATNe%3DbMgRQERQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
