About Near Real-Time Indexing
CES 7.0.7022+ (September 2014) NRTI is enabled by default for both new and existing indexes, but can be disabled/enabled from the Administration Tool (see Configuring Near Real-Time Indexing).
The index pipeline processing time may greatly vary depending on numerous factors such as the index size, the number of new documents to index at a given time, and the available resources on your Coveo Master and Mirror servers.
Examples: For a 40 million document index:
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In a normal scenario where the Coveo server meets the requirements and crawlers send a normal flow of new documents to the index, the index pipeline processing time may be reduced from 30 minutes to less than 3 minutes, respectively without and with the NRTI feature.
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In a worst case scenario where the Coveo server does not meet the requirements and large sources are rebuilt on top of a normal flow of new documents, the index pipeline processing time may be of a few days and enabling the NRTI feature will most likely not help because the server is lacking resources.
NRTI creates small temporary slices called subslices to receive new, changed, or deleted indexed documents. Because subslices are much smaller in size than a regular slice of a large index, their index pipeline processing is completed much faster, allowing to return queried documents they contain much faster.
NRTI applies to all sources of the index, improving the freshness of documents from all sources. NRTI fully supports tagging and collaborative rating, meaning that users can transparently tag or apply collaborative rating to documents that are available from subslices or normal ones. The subslice management is transparent to a Coveo administrator, subslices do not appear in the list of slices in the Administration Tool.
Feature History
CES version | Monthly release | Features |
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7.0.7022 | September 2014 | NRTI enabled by default |
7.0.6942 | August 2014 | Addition of a NRTI Administration Tool configuration page [more] |
7.0.6830 | July 2014 | General availability |
7.0.6767 | June 2014 | Introduction in a beta version |