If you only have 2 languages this approach might work for you. This is not something I would consider with the number of languages I need to support.
Eli On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:51 AM, Gereon Steffens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > These are shards of one index and not multiple indexes. There is > > probably a way to get each shard to contain one language but then you > > end up with x servers for x languages, and some will be under utilized > > while other will be over utilized. > > > Schemas will be identical, except for analysers. The language distribution > I'm dealing with is about 60% german, 40% english. For availability reasons, > each shard needs to run on at least two instances anyway, with a load > balancer in front, so I think I'll be able to adjust utilization that way. > > Gereon >