January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 42m
English
Over the years, Elasticsearch has improved a lot in reducing memory pressure by introducing doc_values, which is a little slower than the in-memory data structure, fielddata, but still offer reasonable speed and performance. However, because of the way nested and parent-child documents are stored and searched, you should keep the pros and cons in mind before modeling your data. The following is a comparison of nested versus parent-child types, which is nicely outlined by Zachary Tong in one of his articles:
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Stored in the same Lucene block as each other, which helps in a faster read/query performance. Reading a nested doc is faster than the equivalent parent/child. |
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