Easy Setup versus Advanced Setup for search indexes
Key Takeaway
Easy Setup builds a hybrid search index with default settings in a few steps. Use Advanced Setup when your use case needs a choice that Easy Setup makes for you, such as ranking factors, filter fields, or vector-only search.
A search index stores chunked and vectorized data from a data model object (DMO) or unstructured data model object (UDMO), so a retriever can find relevant content for prompt templates and agents. Data 360 gives you two ways to build one. Easy Setup applies defaults in a few automated steps. Advanced Setup walks you through each choice, so you get more control.
What a search index stores
A search index holds data that other applications can search. Data 360 prepares that data in two stages. First, chunking breaks the data into semantically related pieces. Then vectorization uses an embedding model to turn each piece into searchable vectors.