Re: Nested documents vs. flattening document structure?

[Dc Tech]

Thank  you Erick.
That was my instinct as well.



On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Erick Erickson 
wrote:

> Flattening the nested documents is usually preferred if at all
> possible. Nested documents to, indeed, have a series of restrictions
> that often make them harder to work with than flattened docs.
>
> Best,
> Erick
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Dc Tech  wrote:
> > We are evaluating using nested documents vs. simply flattening the
> document.
> >
> > Looking through the documentation, it is not very clear to me if the
> nested
> > documents are fully mature, and support the full richness  of SOLR
> > (streaming, mature faceting) etc...
> >
> > Any opinions or guidance on that?
> >
> >
> > For *flattening*, we are thinking of setting up three groups of fields:
> > 1. Fields for search - 3-4 groups of fields that glom together the
> document
> > fields in order of boosting priority (e.g. f1 has just the title , f2 has
> > title+authors)
> > 2. Fields for faceting if needed
> > 3. and Fields for  display (or the original document fields) e.g.
> > author_name|author_unique_id...
>

Re: Nested documents vs. flattening document structure?

[Erick Erickson]

Flattening the nested documents is usually preferred if at all
possible. Nested documents to, indeed, have a series of restrictions
that often make them harder to work with than flattened docs.

Best,
Erick

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:48 AM, Dc Tech  wrote:
> We are evaluating using nested documents vs. simply flattening the document.
>
> Looking through the documentation, it is not very clear to me if the nested
> documents are fully mature, and support the full richness  of SOLR
> (streaming, mature faceting) etc...
>
> Any opinions or guidance on that?
>
>
> For *flattening*, we are thinking of setting up three groups of fields:
> 1. Fields for search - 3-4 groups of fields that glom together the document
> fields in order of boosting priority (e.g. f1 has just the title , f2 has
> title+authors)
> 2. Fields for faceting if needed
> 3. and Fields for  display (or the original document fields) e.g.
> author_name|author_unique_id...

Nested documents vs. flattening document structure?

[Dc Tech]

We are evaluating using nested documents vs. simply flattening the document.

Looking through the documentation, it is not very clear to me if the nested
documents are fully mature, and support the full richness  of SOLR
(streaming, mature faceting) etc...

Any opinions or guidance on that?


For *flattening*, we are thinking of setting up three groups of fields:
1. Fields for search - 3-4 groups of fields that glom together the document
fields in order of boosting priority (e.g. f1 has just the title , f2 has
title+authors)
2. Fields for faceting if needed
3. and Fields for  display (or the original document fields) e.g.
author_name|author_unique_id...