Re: [Exist-open] Organizing large collection

[Alberto S. <has...@gm...>]

Thank you, Adam.
That makes sense.

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM Adam Retter <ad...@ex...> wrote:

> If you need to search all the documents each time, then it is most
> performant to have them in a single collection to avoid locking overhead
> between collections. If you only need to search a subset each time, and you
> can divide them by collection and just search one (or a few collections)
> this could be faster, but you would need to benchmark based on your own
> corpus and search requirements.
>
> Adam Retter
>
> eXist Core Developer
> { United Kingdom }
> ad...@ex...
>
> On Mon, 19 May 2025, 10:23 Alberto Simões, <has...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Are there differences in terms of performance between having a large
>> collection (150k docs) with or without a folder structure?
>>
>> I want to treat them as a single collection, but I don't know if it helps
>> to have sub-collections to organise them, or if that is irrelevant to eXist.
>>
>> I appreciate any help you can provide.
>> Alberto
>>
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