[Xapian-discuss] Multiple databases vs Single large database

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 01:42:34PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> There's not been much profiling of searching multiple databases, and I
> don't have figures for how performance compares.  The split databases
> will generally be bigger in total size than a merged database would be
> so you'll need a bit more disk space, but then you need to rebuild while

I meant "but then *IF* you need to ..." here.

> searching the old database, won't need as much scratch space if you can
> rebuild one database at a time.

Cheers,
    Olly