Shard splitting is an anti-pattern if done on server side. If you really need more shards, you have not made good planning and you can always add another index and use index aliasing to search on both. Plus, there are export/import tools if you want reindexing from client side.
Jörg Am 11.12.2014 22:20 schrieb "Gaurav gupta" <gupta.gaurav0...@gmail.com>: > Per, http://thinkbiganalytics.com/solr-vs-elastic-search/ , ElasticSearch > does not suport shard spiltting which Solr supports. Is it generally an > issue in production, if yes what alternate user has :- > > > > Shard Splitting > > Shards are the partitioning unit for the Lucene index, both Solr and > ElasticSearch have them. You can distribute your index by placing shards on > different machines in a cluster. Until April 2013, both Solr and > ElasticSearch would not allow you to change the number of shards in your > index. So if you decided you wanted to split your index into 10 shards on > day one, and two years later you want to add another 5 shards, you were not > able to do that without completely starting over (reindexing everything). > As of April 2013 Solr supports shard splitting > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3755>, which allows you to > create more shards by splitting existing shards. ElasticSearch still does > not support this. > > Thanks, Gaurav > > -- > 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/CALZAj3LGdMLYFPn8jX0CdhgRdP8suWTg0ekR8LcoPRc%3D1gasHg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CALZAj3LGdMLYFPn8jX0CdhgRdP8suWTg0ekR8LcoPRc%3D1gasHg%40mail.gmail.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/CAKdsXoGFACM%2BjFMKDQp_5RS%3D2vx4hOUjADiFag8DP0faoqoqYw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
