Requirements of a Distributed Search System's Design

Requirements

Let’s understand the functional and non-functional requirements of a distributed search system.

Functional requirements

The following is a functional requirement of a distributed search system:

• Search: Users should get relevant content based on their search queries.

Non-functional requirements

Here are the non-functional requirements of a distributed search system:

• Availability: The system should be highly available to the users.

• Scalability: The system should have the ability to scale with the increasing amount of data. In other words, it should be able to index a large amount of data.

• Fast search on big data: The user should get the results quickly, no matter how much content they are searching.

• Reduced cost: The overall cost of building a search system should be less.