Chapter 9. Performance considerations

This chapter covers
  • Optimizing the indexing process and the index structure
  • Optimizing queries
  • Index partitioning (named sharding)
  • Testing

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This chapter is a collection of information, tips, and tricks for making the best of your Hibernate Search application and understanding why some operations are expensive. You have some of this knowledge already if you’ve read the previous ...

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