As asked, that's really an unanswerable question. The math is pretty easy in terms of running out of document IDs, but "searched quickly" depends on too many variables.
I suspect, though, that long before you ran out of document IDs, you'd need to shard your index, Have you looked at SOLR? Best Erick On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:24 PM, andynuss <andrew_n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Lets say that I am indexing large book documents broken into chapters. A > typical book that you buy at amazon. What would be the approximate limit > to > the number of books that can be indexed slowly and searched quickly. The > search unit would be a chapter, so assume that a book is divided into 15-50 > chapters. Any ideas? > > Andy > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/scalability-limit-in-terms-of-numbers-of-large-documents-tp1142517p1142517.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
