Product Vision API Best Practices

[Valentin Ratti]

Hey everyone. With our team we are using Product Vision Search API to offer second-hand products and we have more than 6 mill products to insert into product-sets, but everyday we will be inserting fresh products into the product-set from different ETL processes. We have some questions regarding the API and best practices.

As it's documented, the limit of images per product set is 1 million : https://cloud.google.com/vision/product-search/docs/reference/rest/v1/projects.locations.productSets#ProductSet. So we created products-set per category (e.g PRODUCT_SET_SHIRTS, PRODUCT_SET_JEANS, etc) Is this something that you have seen other customers do?

Secondly, we have seen that when we are pushing products to the product set and this one is indexing, the queries for similar images returns empty. If we stop pushing products then results come normally. Is this expected to happen or are we doing something wrong on other side?

The last question is: how different is in terms of indexing and performance doing insertions one by one to PSAPI or doing a bulk import using CSV?

Thanks in advance.

[Mohammad I (Cloud Platform Support)]

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