The Data Model in a Nutshell

The Data Model defines how documents are stored in the Exalead CloudView index. It provides a way to map the relevant document metas available in your corpus to specific properties grouped by classes. The data model defines how data will be stored in the index, and how it will be used at search time.

The Data Model defines how items are stored in the Exalead CloudView index. It provides a way to gather the related metas found in your data sources into specific classes.

Classes allow you to group list of properties to clearly structure your data model according to the types of documents present in your corpus. You can consider them as business logic views. A document can belong to one class only.

Properties define the configuration of the document metas you want to index. During indexing, Exalead CloudView converts properties into index fields, and optionally hit display fields or facets, depending on your configuration.

Transformation of document metas into index fields via the data model

Exalead CloudView installs with a default_model data model containing a default document class but you can create your own data models and classes.