Relevancy with Range Indexes
[Editor’s Note: Adapted from Adam Fowler’s blog:] A new feature of MarkLogic 7’s search API is range index scoring – affecting relevancy based on a specific value(s) within a document. MarkLogic returns results in relevance order, and range index scoring allows you to determine relevancy based on the value of an element in a document, […]
Publishing: Content Regardless of Format?
Publishing is about content, not format. — Wendy Queen, Associate Director of Project Muse, Johns Hopkins University Press I first heard this quotation at an STM Group Innovation Day I attended in London in early December. The speaker was Sayeed Choudhury of the Data Conservancy at John Hopkins University and notes on his presentation were […]
A Time of Beginnings and Transitions
The month of January, named after Janus the ancient Roman god of beginnings and transitions who is depicted as having two faces so that he may look both forward into the new year as well as back into the one that is past, is a time for reflection and looking forward. With the introduction of […]
When to be lazy, and when to be eager, when querying the database
Generally, optimizations in the evaluator try to be lazy whenever they can when evaluating functions. This allows the application to process data only when needed and limits memory use to only what is needed. But sometimes, you need to evaluate eagerly to improve performance. Here we discuss one use case when it is best to specify eager evaluation.
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