Nested Facets and Collection Limits
TLDR Tuhin asks about hierarchical/nested facets and collection limits. Kishore Nallan shares a sample app and suggests having 100-1000 collections with user assignments.
Jun 01, 2023 (4 months ago)
Tuhin
12:15 PMLove the product and I can't wait to get started with it. I"m trying to figure out how I can work with it and had a couple of questions.
1. How do I do hierarchical/nested facets? I saw the documentation for
`enable_nested_fields but couldn't figure out how I can build nested facets.2. My application handles user generated content and each tenant can have their own schema for documents. Would a collection per tenant work well? I couldn't find a limitations page about how many collections I could create.
Thanks for the help 🙂
Kishore Nallan
12:17 PM1. Please see this sample app for hierarchial categories: https://github.com/typesense/showcase-ecommerce-store
2. I've seen people with 100K collections so it's fine. However a middle ground is to have 100 to 1000 collections and assign users via user_id % 100 logic to one of those collections.
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