Documents are divided into various logical types for example, order document, product document, customer document, and so on. Instead of creating three separate order, product, and customer indices, a single index can be logically divided into order, product and customer types. In RDBMS analogy, a type is nothing but a Table in a database. So, a type is a logical partition of an index.
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