Azure Search

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  1. Support for Dictionary DataType

    Dictionary datatype is very common. Often, we'd like to store our data as a dictionary. Currently, I serialize and store it as a string. It'd be great if the dictionary type is supported.

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    under review  ·  1 comment  ·  Data Types  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →

  2. Support Edm.Date type

    Azure Search only supports Edm.DateTimeOffset. This is great for timestamps and other point-in-time data. However, it's horrible for things like birthdays, invoice dates, and other whole-date scenarios.

    1976-08-27 is very different than 1976-08-27T00:00:00Z.

    Edm.Date was added to OData v4 for this exact reason. It should be a primitive type in Azure Search as well.

    13 votes
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  3. Add support for inheritance ($type)

    Sometimes we have inheritance in our database tables. In my case, I have inheritance mapped to a table using EF Code First, and the table contains a generated column, [Discriminator], that tells the EF which type should be activated when fetching the entity.

    There should be a way for Azure Search (a field transformation function maybe) to map discriminators in the database to fully qualified non-searchable $type fields in the indexes, in order for the SDK to be able to deserialize the types correctly using the TypeNameHandling setting of the Json.net serializer.

    12 votes
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  4. Support multi-fields

    It would be nice to have one data value analyzed multiple different ways.

    https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/multi-fields.html

    6 votes
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  5. Support spatial data with flat projections

    Today Search supports 2d sphere lat/long spatial data. I would like to see support for flat projections, points, polygons and lines.

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    0 comments  ·  Data Types  ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
    unplanned  ·  AdminThe Azure Team on UserVoice (Product Owner, Microsoft Azure) responded

    Thank you for your feedback. While it is unlikely we’ll address this suggestion in the near future, we’ll reassess based on the number of votes it receives.

    With the private preview of complex types (api version 2018-11-11-Preview) you will be able to store a line and leverage it for geospatial queries.

    Thanks,
    Vinod
    Azure Search Product Team

  6. Add combo field support

    Add ability to combine existing fields in index.

    Similar to SQL example below:

    ALTER TABLE SearchData ADD
    Combo As
    [Name] + char(32) +
    [Description] + char(32) +
    [MetaData] + char(32) +
    [OwnerData] + char(32) +
    [CategoryData] + char(32) PERSISTED

    Example in Azure Search:
    e.g.
    idx.FirstName = "John" Edm.String
    idx.LastName = "Doe" Edm.String
    idx.Name = "John Doe"; (Combo, of Firstname and lastname) (Internally could act as Collection(Edm.String) ??)

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