tags search with amazon cloudsearch

Question

I have products that are tagged with keywords. Tags are not unique to any products.

product 1 - tag1, tag2, tag3

product 2 - tag2, tag3

product 3 - tag1, tag2, tag4

I intend to use Amazon Cloudsearch for a start. What is the optimal way to populate the dataset, as well as to perform the tags search? The query may have multiple tags to search.

Answer 1

Your schema should consist of

• product_id: literal or text field, depending on how you want to search it
• tags: literal-array or text-array field

Have a look at this guide, which covers the basics of mapping your data to a search document: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/preparing-data.html

This guide covers basic searching, to answer the second part of your question: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/latest/developerguide/submitting-search-requests.html

Give that a try and let us know if you have any specific questions. Your use-case appears to be very straightforward and will be covered in those tutorials.