Another reason to use multiple indices is the use of different Lucene analyzers.
> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 08:47:44 -0500 > From: peter.hunsber...@gmail.com > To: user@lists.neo4j.org > Subject: Re: [Neo4j] Examples of multiple indices in use? > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:16 AM, Mattias Persson > <matt...@neotechnology.com>wrote: > > > 2011/5/5 Aseem Kishore <aseem.kish...@gmail.com> > > > > > Interesting. That's assuming a person and an organization can share the > > > same > > > name. Maybe an edge case in this example, but I can understand. Thanks. > > > > > > > Hmm, no not share the same name, but have the "name" property in common... > > would you really like to ask an index question for a name and get back both > > persons and organisations mixed in the result? You may, but in many cases > > you wouldn't... or? > > > > The sepazration of indexes can also give you better performance. For > example, consider the case that you have 1000 organizations and 2000000 > people. You really don't want to have to search the index for all 2000000 > people just to find 1 organization.... > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
