Global sort order of records

This topic discusses the global sort order of records.

Once the records have been added to the data store, the Oracle Endeca Server maintains data files for the records in memory. The following rules apply to how the records are sorted in the results returned by the Oracle Endeca Server in response to queries:

Note that when a sorted record result list is requested, string values will be sorted case-insensitively, with ties broken with a case-sensitive comparison (upper-cased letters will rank above lower-cased letters). For example, for the six records A, B, C, a, b, and c, the resulting sort order will be:
A
a
B
b
C
c