If you’ve just played around with Meilisearch using our quick start guide’s movies dataset, indexing your data may have taken Meilisearch only a f

Are you indexing the smart way?

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If you’ve just played around with Meilisearch using our quick start guide’s movies dataset, indexing your data may have taken Meilisearch only a few seconds. But if you worked with a larger dataset, it has probably taken a lot longer than that. In this article, we will review the best practices to help you index your data efficiently and speed up the indexing process.

Meilisearch stores data in the form of discrete records, called documents, and each document must have a unique identifier—the primary key. Documents are grouped into collections, called indexes.

To offer a search-as-you-type experience, Meilisearch needs to store and organize data in multiple manners so it can retrieve it in the most efficient way possible. Because of this, documents must undergo thorough processing before they are ready to be searched.

There are around twenty data structures per index in Meilisearch and constructing them is the most time-consuming part of the indexing process. Changing index settings may invalidate many of these data structures and require reindexing your data. Because of that, it’s usually a good idea to define the index settings before adding your documents.

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