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For example, many architects favor not being locked into a database vendor or cloud provider. However, how likely is a switch really? Maybe 5%, or even lower? How much will it cost you to bring that switching cost down from let's say $50,000 (for a semi-manual migration) to near zero? Likely a lot more than the $2,500 ($50,000 x 5%) you can expect... See more

In Elasticsearch, these partitions are known as shards . Each node of the Elasticsearch cluster can serve queries independently for the partition it manages, thereby increasing query throughput.