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		heipei on March 26, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MeiliSearch: Zero-config alternative to Elasticsea... Would be interested to hear why you can't add another node in some cases.

dijit on March 26, 2020 [–]

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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