Indexing concepts

• Databases
  • Backends
  • Concurrent access
• Documents
  • Document Data
• Terms
  • Stemmers
  • Fields and term prefixes
• Term Generator
• Using identifiers with Xapian
• Values
• Index limitations
  • Term length
  • Document data length
  • Document value length
  • Document ID
  • B-tree block number
  • OS file size
  • Total document length limit

Todo

cover user metadata; note it is included in transactions