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This great convenience and productivity booster also brings a whole new form of lock-in. Hybrid/multi-cloud setups, which seem to attract many architects' attention these days, are a good example of the kind of things you'll have to think of when dealing with lock-in. Let's say you have an application that you'd like to deploy to the cloud. Easy... See more

1. The number of partitions is fixed at the time of the index creation. Each partition is an indivisible chunk of data which can grow in size but not be split into smaller chunks. As the data grows, more nodes may be added to the cluster, but the number of partitions which eventually move to the newer nodes are limited (Fig 3)


2. In some sense, as the

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