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Today we require users to prepare their indices for split operations. Yet, we can do this automatically when an index is created which would make the split feature a much more appealing option since it doesn't have any 3rd party prerequisites anymore. This change automatically sets the number of routinng shards such that an index is guaranteed to be able to split once into twice as many shards. The number of routing shards is scaled towards the default shard limit per index such that indices with a smaller amount of shards can be split more often than larger ones. For instance an index with 1 or 2 shards can be split 10x (until it approaches 1024 shards) while an index created with 128 shards can only be split 3x by a factor of 2. Please note this is just a default value and users can still prepare their indices with `index.number_of_routing_shards` for custom splitting. NOTE: this change has an impact on the document distribution since we are changing the hash space. Documents are still uniformly distributed across all shards but since we are artificually changing the number of buckets in the consistent hashign space document might be hashed into different shards compared to previous versions. This is a 7.0 only change. |
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README.markdown
Elasticsearch REST API JSON specification
This repository contains a collection of JSON files which describe the Elasticsearch HTTP API.
Their purpose is to formalize and standardize the API, to facilitate development of libraries and integrations.
Example for the "Create Index" API:
{
"indices.create": {
"documentation": "http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/indices-create-index.html",
"methods": ["PUT", "POST"],
"url": {
"path": "/{index}",
"paths": ["/{index}"],
"parts": {
"index": {
"type" : "string",
"required" : true,
"description" : "The name of the index"
}
},
"params": {
"timeout": {
"type" : "time",
"description" : "Explicit operation timeout"
}
}
},
"body": {
"description" : "The configuration for the index (`settings` and `mappings`)"
}
}
}
The specification contains:
- The name of the API (
indices.create), which usually corresponds to the client calls - Link to the documentation at http://elastic.co
- List of HTTP methods for the endpoint
- URL specification: path, parts, parameters
- Whether body is allowed for the endpoint or not and its description
The methods and url.paths elements list all possible HTTP methods and URLs for the endpoint;
it is the responsibility of the developer to use this information for a sensible API on the target platform.
License
This software is licensed under the Apache License, version 2 ("ALv2").