8. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by a computerized search system to perform: parsing and analyzing an indexing request associated with an object, the indexing request being received at a search engine embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable memory and communicatively connected to a client device over a network connection; identifying any derived metadata fields in a search index that would be affected by the indexing request; determining whether any of the identified derived metadata fields in the search index that would be affected by the indexing request are within a list or record of protected metadata fields that are to be protected from change; and executing an indexing command to update the search index with data associated with the object without erasing or modifying values of the derived metadata fields in the search index that have been identified as would be affected by the indexing request and that have been determined to be associated with the list of record of protected metadata fields, the data comprising text, metadata, or both.
8. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by a computerized search system to perform: parsing and analyzing an indexing request associated with an object, the indexing request being received at a search engine embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable memory and communicatively connected to a client device over a network connection; identifying any derived metadata fields in a search index that would be affected by the indexing request; determining whether any of the identified derived metadata fields in the search index that would be affected by the indexing request are within a list or record of protected metadata fields that are to be protected from change; and executing an indexing command to update the search index with data associated with the object without erasing or modifying values of the derived metadata fields in the search index that have been identified as would be affected by the indexing request and that have been determined to be associated with the list of record of protected metadata fields, the data comprising text, metadata, or both. 11. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the identifying is performed by an indexing controller of an indexing engine in the computerized search system.