Hi all,
I'm writing a plugin to implement a custom suggestion/discovery engine with
elasticsearch. In this plugin I'm loading in several native scripts to
handle searching/sorting.
My plan is to first use a "script filter" first to filter down documents
based on a relatively complex set of features (including potentially
loading in data from external sources). I then plan to cache this result
with Google Guava (built into elasticsearch), haven't decided yet how best
to handle expiry of this cached result, if at all.
Then I plan to use another native script with a "custom_score" query to
access that cached result and use it to score the document with
a separate scoring algorithm. This way I can easily switch scoring
algorithms per query but still retain the filtering method easily.
I'd love to get feedback about this method, especially curious about
potential performance pitfalls.
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