Index-per-user required for common terms query and cutoff_frequency?

The docs
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/common-terms.html
mention that "One of the benefits of cutoff_frequency is that you get
domain-specific stopwords for free."

It seems like the index-per-user approach is required here in order to make
the term frequencies accurate. If you used a shared index
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/shared-index.html
or even faked an index per user
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/faking-it.html,
your TF counts for some field would reflect the index as a whole
(aggregated across the counts for each shard in that index), not just for
that user. If you tended to just query the documents for one user at a time
using some filter field, the common terms query would probably not return
the results you are expecting.

Am I understanding this correctly?

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Loren loren@siebert.org wrote:

The docs
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/common-terms.html
mention that "One of the benefits of cutoff_frequency is that you get
domain-specific stopwords for free."

It seems like the index-per-user approach is required here in order to
make the term frequencies accurate. If you used a shared index
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/shared-index.html
or even faked an index per user
http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/faking-it.html,
your TF counts for some field would reflect the index as a whole
(aggregated across the counts for each shard in that index), not just for
that user. If you tended to just query the documents for one user at a time
using some filter field, the common terms query would probably not return
the results you are expecting.

Am I understanding this correctly?

I think you understand the issue perfectly, yes. cutoff_frequency is per
shard so each shard would need to contain only a single domain for the
stopwords to really work.

Nik

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