Searching Across Partitioned Collections

When using collections, Magnify queries using the Lucene Parallel Multi-Search. The search term is submitted to each Magnify index library partition (collection) in parallel on multiple threads. For example, the following illustrates Magnify sending a query for DVD Extras to all indexes in the Century Electronics KB collection:

The result set returns with each search result ranked by relevancy. Each partition returns its most relevant search results (this includes relevancy rank). For example, the following illustrates the relevancy rank of each index in its result set for the DVD Extra search query.

Magnify then sorts each result returned into one result set and sorts by relevancy rank. The user receives the most relevant search results across all collections.


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