Let’s say that I have a type of thing called “Message” and I want to show it to each one of my users but only do it once. Which one of these ways would be the fastest way to do it?
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Add a list field to the Message called Users Viewed and just use a standard search where Users Viewed doesn’t contain current users. For comparison purposes, let’s say each Message has 10,000 people who viewed it.
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Add a list field to User called Messages Viewed and use a filter on top of the search that eliminates all of the Messages that are on that user’s Messages Viewed list. Let’s say each user would have 300 messages they’ve viewed.
I know #1 is much faster usually because of Elastic Search but what if there is such a drastic difference in the number of items on the list?