Denis, you are absolutely right. Iterating through millions of objects is indeed a very complex task. Ignite casts a secret spell instead.
--Yakov 2017-08-17 21:26 GMT+01:00 Denis Magda <[email protected]>: > Alex P., Vladimir, > > Having CREATE INDEX command we can define indexes in runtime. However, > it’s unclear how a new index is built. > > Let’s imagine I have a field “name” that was in Person’s model for a while > and there are millions of such objects in the cluster. Now I turned the > field into the index in runtime. How Ignite is going to built the index? Do > we iterate over the millions of objects with the field in background or at > the time of the CREATE INDEX execution blocking the latter? Or is there > more sophisticated process? > > — > Denis
