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...