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 <dctech1...@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...
