Discussing Issues and Improvements for Typesense
TLDR Greg shared feedback and raised questions about Typesense, specifically about nested objects, rate limiting, and documentation. Kishore Nallan provided explanations, confirming that non-searchable fields can be stored and noting to improve documentation clarity.
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May 26, 2021 (32 months ago)
Greg
03:15 AM• Nested objects and arrays of objects (even if they're not searchable/filterable).
• As an alternative to first-class nesting, maybe an option to format documents on the way out (i.e. store em flat, enhance/expand structure on the way out).
• Rate limiting? Key-specific or across the board.
• Google results for older versions? Love the version picker in the docs but it's easy to end up on an older version without noticing.
• Sorting on fixed length strings! (already found this, just noting that i'm excited about it 😁)
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Kishore Nallan
03:22 AM> even if they're not searchable/filterable
You can already store non-indexed nested fields in Typesense. Typesense will just store any document you throw at it verbatim and use the schema to only index the fields mentioned in the schema.
Greg
03:38 AMKishore Nallan
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