reindexing

Rebuilding the catalog

Reindexing is rebuilding an index—the organizational structure that speeds up data retrieval.

In databases and search systems, indexes degrade over time as records are added, deleted, or modified; reindexing restores efficiency: The search was slow until we reindexed the database.

In finance, reindexing adjusts values to a new base period or benchmark.

cataloging

classification

Systematic grouping by traits

  • taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
  • metadataDescriptive information about content
  • archivingStoring for long-term keeping

cross-referencing · tagging · bibliographic · ontology · schema · cataloger · accession · librarianship · documentation · systematization

search

crawling

Moving on hands, knees

optimization · retrieval · database · keywords · filtering · lookup · relevance · SEO · sitemap · spider

updating

rebuilding

Constructing anew after destruction

synchronization · versioning · reconfiguring · realigning · batch processing · incremental · delta · reprocessing · recalculating · renumbering

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data organization action

reindexingdeleting

Removing from existence

dropping · deindexing · removing · destroying · purging

system state change

reindexingpreserving

Protecting from deterioration

maintaining · freezing · ignoring · abandoning · neglecting

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