Introducing Geo Bounded Polygon Query in Full Text Search
Geo Bounded Polygon Query The ability to perform text search with geo capabilities is a very powerful and effective feature from full text search(FTS). And we are bringing the more flexible geo bounded polygon query feature to FTS in...
Few Index Management Tips – FTS Best Practices Part II
We have already seen a handful of best practices for defining an FTS index in part1, now let’s explore a few useful tips about the operational and maintenance aspects of an index. A user who is new to the...
Building autoComplete or typeAhead functionality using Full Text Search
What is autoComplete? Autocomplete as the wikipedia says “Autocomplete, or word completion, is a feature in which an application predicts the rest of a word a user is typing” It is also known as Suggestions or Type Ahead or...
FTS Performance Improvements in 6.5.0 – Part 2
For all those who are restlessly eager, let me reveal the deep dark secret of all the performance optimisations in FTS in 6.5.0 is, “ Do less And Do it less often ** ” And I am sure you...
A Glimpse of FTS Performance Improvements in 6.5.0 – Part 1
Ever since the nimbler, refined scorch indexing format released in Couchbase 6.0.0, the FTS team has been pretty excited about the future optimisation potential unlocked with the newer indexing scheme. With the 6.5.0 release, we have essentially embarked on...
Scorch Index Type – Why does it matter?
Index types in Full Text Search (FTS) – refers to the collective specification of the inverted index format and it’s storage aspects. Scorch is the advanced and evolving index type. But before delving further into the details of scorch, its...
Full Text Search Best Practices – Part 1
Full Text Search – Indexing Tips Understanding the Couchbase Full Text Search (FTS) indexing options and tuning those are essential for building the right index for the job at hand. The right index here refers to a lean and rich enough...