Ferret

Summary

You now know how to set up an index, including what kinds of properties are available for each field. We also covered how to set up fields for indexing different datatypes, such as numbers and dates, as well as how to setup a field for sorting. You’ve learned about document and field boosting, and how to perform the basic operations add, get, update, and delete on a Ferret index. That pretty much covers everything you need to know about indexing with Ferret.

Chapter 3 takes indexing to the next level. You’ll learn more about how the indexing process works and how to tune your index to get the best possible performance from it. If performance is not a concern for you—and Ferret is usually fast enough out of the box—you can probably skip most of the next chapter. But everyone should carefully read the Index Locking and Concurrency Issues” section.