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Full Text Search Across Long Books: Chunking vs. Single Document

TLDR Epi asked about providing FTS for long books. Kishore Nallan suggested breaking the books into chunks for better performance and query results.

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Dec 03, 2022 (9 months ago)
Epi
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Epi
08:03 PM
If I'd like to provide FTS across a collection of long books, is it necessary to break each book into chunks for performance, or can a single document be the whole book itself?
Dec 04, 2022 (9 months ago)
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
12:48 AM
Definitely you need to break it into chunks because that's when you can provide multiple relevant highlights for a given query. You can always use group by to group the results meaningfully at a per chapter or page level if needed.
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