How to group by a field in Azure Search

Question

I need to query an index with paging and the index contains huge amount of documents. The query should also group by one of the fields. Is it possible to group by a field in Azure Search?

Thanks!

Answer 1

For the grouping of fields, I would suggest that you leverage the faceting capability that allows you to retrieve the count of values within a field. There are some good examples of how to do faceting here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn798927.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Also, I am not sure if you are asking if it is possible to do paging with Azure Search, but the answer is yes, and you can do so using the $skip and $top parameters. There are also examples of this in the above link.

Liam