Enterprise Search Storage Estimator
August 30, 2008
Solrhack has posted a handy “rule of thumb” estimator for capacity planning. You can read the article and see the formula here. The article is called “Enterprise Search Capacity Planning.” Keep in mind that the multiplier can vary. Some vendors with excellent compression methods can generate indexes that are one quarter to one half the size of the total corpus processed. If you know of other tools like this, please, use the comments section of this Web log to share them. I will add them to the ArnoldIT.com and the New Idea Engineering page of search tools. Oh, a happy quack to Solrhack as well.
Stephen Arnold, August 30, 2008