The community member is trying to understand the purpose of a docstore, as they thought it was to have a persistent data source that could be used for multiple indices. However, they note that it seems they cannot create an index directly from a docstore, and cannot retrieve all the nodes at once. A comment suggests that docstores are mainly used for being able to refresh data.
Hello, I have been looking online for a while trying to figure out the point of a docstore. I thought it was in order to have a source you can persist that can be used for multiple indices, but it seems you can't actually create an index from a docstore, only the nodes, and you can't get all the nodes (at once) from a docstore. Am I missing something?
