[nathanwh]

From the doc linked "Partitioning is done manually.", which seems like a pretty big limitation to me? For static data sure, but for non static data it seems like it would be an operational headache to manage manual partitions, compared to elasticsearch which partitions for you (although IIRC shard count is fixed)

[snikolaev]

Despite years of users relying on distributed indexes and manual sharding in Manticore, I concur that automation would simplify the process greatly. The development team is working on automating sharding and orchestrating the shards. Hopefully it will be included in the next major release in a few months.