Terminology

Here are some of the common terms used in this documentation.

Corpus refers to the collection of documents, coming from one or several data sources that needs to be indexed.

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.

Documents can be defined as all the objects to be indexed by Exalead CloudView, regardless of file or entity type in the data source. For example, HTML, JPG or CSV files, database records are all considered documents within Exalead CloudView, since they are all converted into a specific document format (also known as a PAPI document) after being scanned by a connector.

Items are the objects to be indexed by Exalead CloudView, regardless of file or entity type in the data source. For example, in OnePart, 3D CAD files, JPGs, PDFs are all considered items in the index.

Facets are used to narrow search results. Use them to drill-down into an area, such as language, author, or file type. They are typically used in dashboard analytics widgets, or in the Refinements panel for enterprise search.

Index is an efficient structure used by Exalead CloudView to store information about the items it has analyzed. When users issue search queries, Exalead CloudView quickly and easily finds the results within this structure.

Queries are the search requests sent to the Exalead CloudView search engine and processed according to a specified search logic.