FW: Nested documents vs. flattening document structure?

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From: Dc Tech [mailto:dctech1000@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 March 2018 20:19
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Nested documents vs. flattening document structure?

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...