Questions tagged [search]
Looking for specific data to be found in a large data structure, a database, or a stream of data. For database queries with well identified search criteria, use the query tag.
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How to pass arguments of a complex search in RESTful API request params
I’m building an app that lets users manage data across multiple tables. I also expose an API so they can fetch their data and process it in external services.
I’d like to enhance the API to support ...
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Using bit strings for modeling stable hierarchies in tables, is the faster solution?
Purely relational databases (SQL) seem to suffer to nowadays from the lack of a good solution for search/indexing hierarchies. Here a systematic review of the subject: https://stackoverflow.com/q/...
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Finding related items in OpenSearch between 2 datasets
I have a scenario where I have 2 sets of data:
All possible products
Products carried by a store
Dataset 2 is a subset of dataset 1.
If a user searches for a product that the store doesn't carry, I'...
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How to architect an in-app search solution that accounts for access to data?
I have a lot of data that I would like to enable end-users to search on. I plan to use ElasticSearch (but am open to other technologies). This would also be an AWS native solution. For simplicity, let'...
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Best-first search on a graph
I am working through an example of best-first search on a graph, and I'm having some trouble understanding exactly what the process should be.
This is the graph I have:
The heuristic values are in ...
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What are some architectures and designs I could use to optimize the performance of file text data lookups?
I would like to write a program that essentially handles text data and metadata of files locally on a machine's filesystem. There is no need for any network activity. I am working with large ...
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User (Actor) data shared across Domains / Microservices
I have read through a number of posts on Software Engineering but am unable to find a suitable solution for the problem my team and I are trying to solve.
We are building a system where we have ...
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HOWTO: Full-text search over an encrypted database?
I want to adhere to the best practices and obviously encrypt the data sent to me by user. And I also want to provide the full-text search feature to the user (user can only search their own data, if ...
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A data structure / algorithm to combine search tree and hash table?
I have a two dimensional data with one dimension is ordered and another one is categorical, for example, country and city_age:
country
age
city
Italy
2773
Rome
Germany
784
Berlin
USA
397
New York
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What are the complexities of a binary search?
I recently asked a question on CodeReview SE where using a binary search was recommended, and the author of the answer proved that it was faster than my implementation. During my research on the topic,...
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How to search for Model Numbers that contain wildcards?
I have a database full of ModelNumbers that I want a user to be able to search for. The tricky part is that some of the model numbers have lots of funny characters including:
* - Alphanumeric ...
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Where to sync Database and Search-Database in MVC pattern
I have a website-sideproject (Application Server: Django, Database: sqlite) with "search" functionality and I've recently stumbled over this problem.
When you have a full-text-search-...
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Database schema for two different types of elements on map
I wrote a software for a customer that shows clients on a map (Google Maps).
I store the clients on a table on the MySQL database (table clients) and show them on the map using markers. Each clients ...
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Best choice for a holding large number of objects in java
I have a set of array, containing a large number of objects (products), which has lately grown so large, searching in it takes about a minute, which is considered too long, since one search is ...
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Websockets vs Ajax for live search
For building a simplistic live search system, I trying to decide whether to use Websockets or Ajax. Implementation wise, for every letter the user types (or maybe every 0.5 seconds), a database query ...
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