How to organize related types

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Hi,

I'm building a simple blog for myself as a way to learn ES. I have a pretty
typical set of models, Post, PostTag, PostCategory, PostComment etc.. I'm
wondering what the best way to store/index these models is -- specifically,
with documents that are related to other types. Does ES handle sql-like
joins with related documents? For example, would Comments be a separate
type, or would they be nested within the Post from which they belong?

Apologies for the n00bness.

Matt

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IMO, I would think about what document type I want to search for.

Are you looking for Posts ? Comments ? I think that your need is to find posts and only that.

So, I would only index posts with all its fields (categories, comments, ...)
Each Time a new comment is added, just push again the full post to ES.

That's the way I will do it.

BTW it's difficult to stop thinking SQL in a NOSQL world. Things are differents and we don't need to split datas into relationnal documents.

David :wink:

Le 24 sept. 2011 à 02:51, goodieboy goodieboy@gmail.com a écrit :

Hi,

I'm building a simple blog for myself as a way to learn ES. I have a pretty typical set of models, Post, PostTag, PostCategory, PostComment etc.. I'm wondering what the best way to store/index these models is -- specifically, with documents that are related to other types. Does ES handle sql-like joins with related documents? For example, would Comments be a separate type, or would they be nested within the Post from which they belong?

Apologies for the n00bness.

Matt

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Thanks! That's very helpful.

One thing I'm not clear on how to do is hierarchical relationships. I want
to store the comments for a post in the post document. A comment can have a
parent etc... What would a mapping look like to handle this situation? What
if I wanted to query posts on a particular comment author name?

Thanks,
Matt