FW: Nested documents vs. flattening document structure?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dc Tech [mailto:dctech1000@gmail.com]
Sent: 06 March 2018 20:53
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Re: Nested documents vs. flattening document structure?

Thank you Erick.
That was my instinct as well.



On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerickson@gmail.com>
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 <dctech1000@gmail.com> 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...
>