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stage: enablement
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group: Tenant Scale
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description: 'Cells: Global search'
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2023-06-20 00:43:36 +05:30
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<!-- vale gitlab.FutureTense = NO -->
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2023-05-27 22:25:52 +05:30
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DISCLAIMER:
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This page may contain information related to upcoming products, features and
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functionality. It is important to note that the information presented is for
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informational purposes only, so please do not rely on the information for
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purchasing or planning purposes. Just like with all projects, the items
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mentioned on the page are subject to change or delay, and the development,
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sole discretion of GitLab Inc.
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This document is a work-in-progress and represents a very early state of the
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Cells design. Significant aspects are not documented, though we expect to add
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them in the future. This is one possible architecture for Cells, and we intend to
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contrast this with alternatives before deciding which approach to implement.
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This documentation will be kept even if we decide not to implement this so that
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we can document the reasons for not choosing this approach.
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# Cells: Global search
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When we introduce multiple Cells we intend to isolate all services related to
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those Cells. This will include Elasticsearch which means our current global
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search functionality will not work. It may be possible to implement aggregated
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search across all cells, but it is unlikely to be performant to do fan-out
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searches across all cells especially once you start to do pagination which
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requires setting the correct offset and page number for each search.
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## 1. Definition
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## 2. Data flow
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## 3. Proposal
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Likely first versions of Cells will simply not support global searches and then
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we may later consider if building global searches to support popular use cases
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is worthwhile.
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## 4. Evaluation
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## 4.1. Pros
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## 4.2. Cons
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