Discussing Typesense's Handling of Sparse Indexed Fields
TLDR Adrian questioned how typesense manages sparse indexed fields. Kishore Nallan clarified that absent values aren't stored, optimizing storage and performance.
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Sep 17, 2021 (28 months ago)
Adrian
06:36 AMKishore Nallan
06:38 AMAdrian
06:39 AM1
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