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Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by heipei on Thursday March 26, 2020 @08:00AM (#22692632)
Would be interested to hear why you can't add another node in some cases.
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Re:MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsearch, ma... by dijit on Thursday March 26, 2020 @06:16PM (#22698533)
If you have 5 shards on an index, adding a 6th node isn’t going to improve performance.

(Contrived example for the sake of illustrating the point)

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