What are SHARDS?

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

There are resource limitations like RAM, vCPU etc., for scale out, due to which applications employ multiple instances of Elasticsearch on separate machines.
Data in an index can be partitioned into multiple portions which are managed by a separate node or instance of Elasticsearch.Each such portion is called a Shard.And an Elasticsearch index has 5 shards by default.

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