If you plan go into the tens of thousands or more, it’s better to contact us to set up an optimized configuration.A few common use cases where several indices are needed:
You need to index different “kind of things”: index_people, index_products, …
You need to clear and re-index a complete index. To avoid negative transition effects like having an empty index at some point, we advise you to create a new temporary index and then replace the old one.
You want to have multiple development environments: dev_products, staging_products, prod_products, …
You want to have different indices for different languages: products_en, products_fr, products_it, …