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Discussing Synonym Management and Performance

TLDR Narayan inquires about synonym management and performance implications. Kishore Nallan assures them of no performance drops but also declines the idea of a batch insert option, prompting Narayan to create a GitHub issue.

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Oct 24, 2023 (1 month ago)

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Narayan

11:17 PM

Should be worried if I add 100s/1000s/millions of synonyms? Are there any query runtime performance drops I should be worried about? Has anyone run any such benchmarks?

Oct 25, 2023 (1 month ago)

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Kishore Nallan

02:53 AM

Synonyms have their own inverted index so it should be fine. But if a given keyword matches too many synonyms then we have to do all those additional searches and merge the results.

Narayan

04:33 AM

Tiny follow up - is there a batch insert option available for synonyms?

Kishore Nallan

04:34 AM

No we don't

Narayan

04:35 AM

Do you think it would be worth supporting or is there any reason to not have it? I can create a github issue if one does not exist already.

Kishore Nallan

05:12 AM

Yes please create a GitHub issue. We can prioritise based on demand. Right now we don't have any plans to add it since most people don't have that many syns to manage.

Oct 26, 2023 (1 month ago)

Narayan

02:19 AM

https://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/1335

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