Define schema and sync data

Define schema

Schemas are all about performance. If you aren’t convinced, we wrote an article on schema vs schemaless just to convince you. 😉

You can define your schema in a couple of ways:

1. Manually in our admin console, here:
2. Via our API

3. By uploading a sample dataset during your collection setup

4. Using one of our Integrations

Note: If you’re using our Shopify or another integration, defining your schema will happen automatically for you.

For more information on how to define and change a schema, head over to:

pageSchema

Sync data

There are a couple of different ways to sync your data with search.io:

1. When creating a collection, you can provide a JSON file, and search.io walks you through a data indexing wizard:

   
2. Or you can use or API and client libraries to load and update data.