Comparing Solr and Elasticsearch common business tasks and their impact on the search index
There are impacts to the search index when certain business tasks are performed. This topic describes the Solr and Elasticsearch comparison for the common business tasks and their impact on the search index. The following table lists the common business tasks and reindexing types for Solr and Elasticsearch. The table groups business tasks and reindexing types by business components.
| Business component | Business task | Reindexing type (Solr Search) | Reindexing type (Elasticsearch) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catalog: master or sales catalog | Linking or unlinking to an existing category from a catalog tree. | Delta: Product, Category indices (*) | NRT: Category Product indices |
| Changing an association of existing product to a catalog. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index (catalog asset store) Note: Full reindexing for all
indices of the extended (e-site) store is required to reflect on the
storefront the products associated with the linked
category. |
|
| Changing the default catalog for an extended site. | Full: All indices | Full: All indices only for the extended site store | |
| Creating a new sales catalog. | Full: All indices | Full: All indices for store on which the new sales catalog is applied. | |
| Store: direct business model | Adding a new stand-alone direct model store that uses a separate master catalog. | Full: All indices | Full: All indices for only the new Store |
| Store: extended business model | Adding a new extended site that uses an existing indexed catalog asset store. | Not indexed | Full: All indices for only the new Store |
| Adding a product, or delete an existing product from an existing extended site. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Adding or updating an existing Store configuration | Not indexed | Full: All indices for only the new Store | |
| Catalog entry: product, package, bundle, kit, item | Adding a product, or deleting an existing product | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index |
| Updating any existing property or adding a property to an existing catalog entry, such as the product description, product name, brand name, thumbnail, images, SKU | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Updating any existing or adding a new package or bundle. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Associating or removing a product attribute from an existing product. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Reparenting a catalog entry | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Category | Adding a category. | Delta: Category index | NRT: Category index, URL index |
| Deleting an existing category. | Full: All indices | NRT: Category, URL index, maybe Product indices | |
| Updating any existing property or adding a property to an existing category, such as the category description, thumbnail, images. | Delta: Category index | NRT: Category index, URL index | |
| Reparenting a category | Delta: Product, Category indices | NRT: Category, Product indices | |
| Merchandising association | Updating or adding a new merchandising association | Not indexed | NRT: Product index |
| Attribute Dictionary attributes | Adding or removing any value of a newly created attribute in the attribute dictionary. | Not indexed | NRT: Attribute index |
| Updating any value of an existing attribute in the attribute dictionary associated with products. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Attribute, Product indices | |
| Attributes | Adding or removing any value of an existing product attribute. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index |
| Adding or removing an existing descriptive or defining attribute of a product or item | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Enabling or disabling an existing product attribute to be facetable. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Attribute, Product indices | |
| Enabling or disabling a facet to be displayable in a sales category. | Not indexed | NRT: Attribute, Product, Category indices | |
| Associated asset | Uploading a new attachment and associates with an existing product. | Not indexed | NRT: Product index |
| Reuploading or deleting an existing attachment associated with existing products. | Not indexed | NRT: Product index | |
| Price | Updating any existing or adding a new (default) price rule to a store. | Full: All indices | Full: Product index |
| Updating store default offer price for a product. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Updating list price for a product. | Delta: Product index | NRT: Product index | |
| Contract | Creating or changing a Catalog filter of an existing contract. | Full: All indices | Full: Product, Category, Catalog indices |
| Marketing | Adding, changing, or deleting an existing marketing activity (Web, Dialog). | Not indexed | Not indexed |
| Search rule | Adding, changing, or deleting an existing search rule. | Not indexed | Not indexed |
| Search term association | Adding, changing, or deleting an existing search term association. | Not indexed | NRT: Product index |
| Versioning | Rollback or forward to another version of a category. | Delta: Product, Category indices | Not supported |
| Rollback or forward to another version of a product. | Delta: Product index | Not supported | |
| Rollback or forward to another version of a product. | Delta: Product index | Not supported | |
| Inventory | Updating the inventory search index. | Full: Inventory index | NRT: Product index |
| Natural Language - Name-Entity-Recognition | Adding or updating existing custom NER mapping / classification. | Not supported | Full: Product index |
| Adding or updating existing custom MatchMaker configuration. | Not supported | Full: Product index |
Important: (*) A delta reindex is performed only if the number of changes that
are affected by the business task are less than the DeltaIndexingThreshold
threshold.