Elastic Social Manual / Version 2301
Table Of ContentsMongoDB replicates and balances data transparently between the available nodes, checks node's health, detects new nodes and waits for old nodes to join again. Typical clustering services like failover, replication, data and request distribution is handled transparently to Elastic Social and Elastic Core based applications.
During various tests the following best practices have been showing up:
One million users, ratings or likes require less than 10 GB of hard disk space per node. User profile pictures are not included in this upper limit estimation. See the Mongo DB documentation for details.
