[hibernate-dev] [HSEARCH] Usefulness of index sharing

[Gunnar Morling]

Hibernate Search aficionados,

I am wondering what that's the rationale for offering the feature of
index sharing [1].

The ref guide says "there is really not much benefit in sharing
indexes". It complicates queries, as an additional filter on the type
field must be applied in case of targeting only one entity using a
shared index.

Should we consider to drop this feature in HS 6?

Thanks,

--Gunnar

[1] https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/search/5.4/reference/en-US/html_single/#section-sharing-indexes