I have many categories of products. Each category has its own unique fields. For example, category "Apparel" has fields "size", "color", "style". Category "laptop" has fields "processor", "RAM", "screen size". etc etc. So if I use 1 index for all the products, there will be many (potentially t…

Is it OK to have a large number of sparsely populated fields?

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Is it OK to have a large number of sparsely populated fields?