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Entity Search taking long time for partitions that have a lot of entities

Hayden Gray 5 years ago updated by Matthew Davis (Technical Product Manager) 1 year ago 1

Hi Guys,

I've noticed with that latest version of UNIFYBroker v5.3 above that the Entity Search is slow for large partitions (both connectors and adapters that are usually around 300k-400k entities and about 20 or so attributes each record).

I am aware that some changes have been made to the entity search in recent versions and have raised tickets before about timeout that occur in some cases. I have noticed this occurring in both IIS and self hosted versions. The workaround for this currently is to increase the timeout value, but even when this is increase for larger connectors you can be waiting for 15~20 minutes or longer for the entity search to load. In previous versions of Broker (5.0) the old entity search would load the entities with 5~10 seconds.

So I'm proposing that the search doesn't necessarily need to be reverted but investigated as to why it take so long and to see if it can be improved. Let me know if you need any information on this, I'm happy to provide any information on environments this is currently affecting.

Thanks

Planned

Hey Hayden,

We've got this one slated to investigate and improve for the upcoming UNIFYBroker 6.0 release. It looks like it regressed somewhere between 5.1 and 5.3, where the data layer was re-worked to support other database technologies like PostgreSQL. 

It's definitely on our priority list to have a better experience for 6.0 so I'll keep you posted on how it goes. Unfortunately there's been some core dependent technologies deprecated between 5.3 and 6.0 for the data layer, which have resulted in significant changes to how we interact with the database. That means we'll be unlikely to roll a fix back to 5.3 - however given the lifetime left on the version I'm hoping that's not a huge deal.